13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
2:58 p.m.
On 13 Dec 2010 at 14:27, Fred Cisin wrote:
A long time ago, there used to be some people who put
slashes through
the letter 'o', to differentiate it from the numeral '0'. Are they
ALL dead now?
One of MICROS~1's early attempts at OCR on their order forms gave
examples of how they wanted the letters formed, and included slashing
the letter 'o'!
I used a coding form where the convention was pre-printed on the
form. Not that anyone red the green stuff...
I've always wondered what the Scandanavians do to differentiate 0
from O from ?.
Don't some Micros~1 or IBM character sets use a dot in the middle of
a zero?
--Chuck