Quote Originally Posted by EarlyBird2 View Post
....A way forward is to use a bit pattern within a byte simply by indicating . as 0 and - as 1.

... we add a start bit 1 we get %00001000 or $08 in hex.

and O would be 111 and with the start bit 1111 we get $00001111 or $0F

and so on for all of the ASCII characters.
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Weird, I was sure morse was up to 3 characters, turns out it's up to 5 characters.


I've tried all sorts of ways to try to store morse in as little space. Turns out the start bit technique is the best one yet.


There's non-English code ś and special character $ here that can be up to 7 characters; so you could still fit that in 8 bits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code


The only character I haven't figured how to store is prosign ERROR; 8 dots. I suppose that could be hard-coded?

Robert