Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy aSelectric?)

think, Hopefully not in Denmark, this would be the character ?. I use (even today) put a hyphen through letter O, and nothing through figure 0. While talking "funny" characters : we use ? ? and ? (Swedes use ? instad of ?). Those three characters are not found in EBCDIC, so some other characters had to be sacrified : # @ and $. Germans have other characters too, like ?. And that gave us a problem when we had a prime minister called Schl?ter, as ? in the German EBCDIC version had the same value as our ? (IIRC) Back before 1948 or so, the ? did not exist. Before that time, ? was written as AA. Even today we have to handle that seperately, as names etc. did not get AA replaced with ? So even today, if you in a danish telphone directory want to find a name with aa, e.g. Haase, you will find Haase behind Hy or Hz... Talk about sorting probolems ? :-) Nico