Doesn't Morse lack a number of characters that are useful nowadays?
But I suppose it could be kind of useful for quick in-game chat in uppercase English.
(how do you say MEDIC in Morse?)
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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Presumably you could Huffman encode ascii or UTF8 and represent it as a compatible Morse extension.
Honestly I just have learned the basics. So I am not sure what all it is missing. But for my use it works perfectly. Check out this site though. If you use it for a week you will probably be as comfortable as me.
https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/
For medic it would be -- . -.. .. -.-.
Seems like a lot of extra work but for games that have a lot of hot keys I could see it being helpful. Also for just doing short chats it isn't too crazy.
Honestly I use a keyboard every day for work I wouldn't mind varying how I input data into a system. Voice chat still isn't there and this is a tried and true communication protocol.
The idea is interesting at any rate. I expect that you'll let us know if you manage to make it work.
Will do! I am getting moved to a shift role shortly so I should have some free time opening up to experiment with.
This is a really interesting idea! It sounds like you'll need something to translate the Morse code into alphanumeric characters as you type.
Yeah I know the Google keyboard has that functionality. Honestly if I could just switch from the steam keyboard to the Google keyboard that would save me the trouble of starting from scratch.
maybe itss possible, but would require a bit of programming
Could it be done by changing a default keyboard. There are keyboards that exist which already do this. I just don't know how to change settings like what keys launch the keyboard and the keyboard itself.