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This further reduced the code space to 98, of which either four or six code points (depending on version) were control characters, leaving a code space for text of 94 or 92 respectively. The Chappe system mostly transmitted messages using a code book with a large number of set words and phrases.
The average length of a telegram in the 1900s in the US was 11.93 words; more than half of the messages were 10 words or fewer. [5] According to another study, the mean length of the telegrams sent in the UK before 1950 was 14.6 words or 78.8 characters. [6] For German telegrams, the mean length is 11.5 words or 72.4 characters. [6]
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
The average length of a telegram in the 1900s in the US was 11.93 words; more than half of the messages were 10 words or fewer. [80] According to another study, the mean length of the telegrams sent in the UK before 1950 was 14.6 words or 78.8 characters. [81] For German telegrams, the mean length is 11.5 words or 72.4 characters. [81]
The Chinese telegraph code, Chinese telegraphic code, or Chinese commercial code (simplified Chinese: 中文电码; traditional Chinese: 中文電碼; pinyin: Zhōngwén diànmǎ or simplified Chinese: 中文电报码; traditional Chinese: 中文電報碼; pinyin: Zhōngwén diànbàomǎ) [1] is a four-digit decimal code (character encoding) for electrically telegraphing messages written with ...
An early "piano" Baudot keyboard. The Baudot code (French pronunciation:) is an early character encoding for telegraphy invented by Émile Baudot in the 1870s. [1] It was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2), the most common teleprinter code in use before ASCII.
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Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions.