Talk:Tap code: Difference between revisions

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::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)

:::Oops, I looked at David Kahn's "The Codebreakers" for the first time in a number of years, and he says that in the Tsarist jails, a form of tap code based on a 6x6 square "to accommodate the 35 letters of the old Russian alphabet" existed, but more often a rectangle of "five across and six down" was used. The 30-letter rectangle would have used a streamlined form of the Russian alphabet similar in some ways to that of the 1918 spelling reform, but not necessarily identical to it... [[User:AnonMoos|AnonMoos]] ([[User talk:AnonMoos|talk]]) 05:36, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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