20 Sep
2012
20 Sep
'12
3:22 a.m.
ons 2012-09-19 klockan 18:54 -0700 skrev Fred Cisin:
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Al Kossow wrote:
The old swedish standard for distinguishing zero (0) was with a slash (?
which is a big ?.)
That convention clashes with the norwegian ?.
? (swedish) = ? (norwegian)
There was an attempt at establishing what can
roughly be described as an upside down Q
for a slashed O. The only example I know of where someone used this are in line printer
listings
from SDS in the late 60's. I would have to do some serious digging in magazines to
find who was
pushing this as a standard. They end up looking like misformed 8's.
It does terrible things to OCR.
Microsoft's first attempt at OCR customer order forms used it!
Haven't seen it since.
In the 1960s, I remember a few old farts who slashed O's (to differentiate
them from zeroes!) One of the teachers that I had in 1967 used to do it.
He never liked me, because I asked a lot of weird questions.
He was one of my favorite teachers, because he could answer those weird
questions!
I assume that they are all dead now. When I began teaching in 1983, he
had recently passed, and they gave me his old desk!