On 14 Dec 2010 at 9:01, Nico de Jong wrote:
 > There still are. At least about 5 million of them,
as the ? is a
> danish letter. It is very important, because "beer" without the ?
> would spell "l". Can hardly say "I want to order a bottle of l"
:-) 
 Not my question (maybe Fred's?). 
 Mine was "How did the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians
differentiate "O"
from "?" and zero when they wrote on coding forms? 
Most colleagues put a hyphen through the O (Oh), whereas a 0 (zero) was left
"as is"