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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 23:34:32 CDT
From: "Patton M. Turner" <pturner@eng.auburn.edu>
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Subject: Re: Telephone Keypad for Alphanumerics
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Bernie Roehl <broehl@watserv1.waterloo.edu> writes:

> I'm working on a project in which touch-tone users will have to enter
> names, addresses and so on.

> Is there a standard way of encoding these?  (One scheme that pops to
> mind would be "key,position" (for L you would type 53 since 'L' is on
> the 5 key in the third position).

A standard code (cipher?) is for a 0 to represent the first letter on
the key and a 1 to represent the last letter on the key.  The absence
of a 0 or 1 represents the middle letter on the key.  The next number
is the number of the key.  This works for all letter except Q and Z.
Prehaps thay can be represented by 00 and 11.


Patton Turner    KB4GRZ     pturner@eng.auburn.edu