Lu Posted September 21, 2005 at 03:40 PM Report Posted September 21, 2005 at 03:40 PM I saw Wujiandao twice, and I think it's an awesome movie. But I wondered about something. In the movie, the undercover cop (Tony Leung) uses morse to communicate with his boss the police officer. Now I wonder, how does that work? There can't be a morse code for every character, that'd be totally impractical. Does anyone know? Quote
geraldc Posted September 21, 2005 at 03:50 PM Report Posted September 21, 2005 at 03:50 PM The police in HK still use a lot a of English, plus it's only a movie, it's not real!!! Quote
trevelyan Posted September 21, 2005 at 04:00 PM Report Posted September 21, 2005 at 04:00 PM The morse code was a gambit to throw off the drug dealers. They were really communicating via telepathy. That being said, this would be a great question to throw at the screenwriter. Quote
in_lab Posted September 22, 2005 at 01:05 AM Report Posted September 22, 2005 at 01:05 AM From another forum: One way is "Chinese Telegraph Code" where a character is converted to a 4 digit number with a massive table. http://forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?t=37228&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=morse+code Quote
Lu Posted September 23, 2005 at 07:32 PM Author Report Posted September 23, 2005 at 07:32 PM In lab: thanks, that was exactely the same question in that other forum. Although this list of codes doesn't look practical. You'd have to learn the whole list by heart to be able to use it for undercover work. Trevelyan: Of course, that must be it :-) Quote
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