Talk:Tap code: Difference between revisions

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However, the original source material does not have it in an HTML table so someone more skilled needs to do it.

<pre>:''The code was relatively straightforward: letters of the Russian alphabet were laid out in five rows of six letters:

<pre>А Б В Г Д Е/Ё

Ж З И К Л М

Н О П Р С Т

У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш

Щ Ъ Ы Э Ю Я</pre>

:''Each letter was then designated by a pair of taps, the first signifying the row, the second the position in the row:

<pre>1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6

2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6

3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6

4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 4,5 4,6

5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 5,6</pre>

:''Even those who had not read about the code or learned it from others sometimes figured it out, as there were standard methods of teaching it.

:''Those who knew it would sometimes tap out the alphabet, over and over again, together with one or two simple questions, in the hope that the unseen person on the other side of the wall would catch on.</pre>

[[User:Eyreland|Eyreland]] ([[User talk:Eyreland|talk]]) 00:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

::Not sure that can be the truly original form of the tap code, since it reflects a form of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet after [[Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution reform|the 1918 reforms]], and so would appear not to be suitable for use in the Tsarist era... [[User:AnonMoos|AnonMoos]] ([[User talk:AnonMoos|talk]]) 14:38, 10 August 2014 (UTC)