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Julian Thomas asked:

Would it be that the code point with no holes wasn't used?

The code point with no holes represents the blank character. The code point with all holes is *Letters-shift. *IIRC, Baudot, like ASCII, used mark-hold. So an idle line was carried a continuous mark signal. Characters were represented by 7 elements, (spacing element, five code-point elements, mark element). The mark-to-space transition signalled the beginning of a new code symbol.

Chuck

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