Hello Kees,

On Monday May 27 2019 15:23, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> Morse code also has just one case. But unlike Baudot code, it
 MvdV>> is extendible and while in its orginal form it just had 26
 MvdV>> letters, the digits 0-9 and a handfull special chaacters, later
 MvdV>> codes for accented and umlauted characters were added. The
 MvdV>> latest addition is .--.-. (@)

 KE>  The use of Morse is not practical in binary fixed word systems.

I was not advocating to use Morse code in Fidonet. Just presenting some
background information.

 KE> It was born in a time, where bandwith was a liniting factor. Most
 KE> computer encodings were born where memory/storage was a limiting
 KE> factor.

It was born in a time when the only storage available was a human writing
things down on a piece of paper end on/off was the only encoding available.
"bandwith" was not an issue, the term was not even in use when Morse code was
born. The early spark transmitters were ver wide band accoding to moden
standards...

 KE>  Extendible systems have administrative overhead.

UTF-8 is extendible...


Cheers, Michiel

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