19 Sep
2012
19 Sep
'12
7:13 p.m.
On 20 September 2012 03:02, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
I did wonder where that came from!
I am bemused to learn that it used to be the other way round. I've
been meticulously slashing my 0s to distinguish them from Os for
nearly 30yrs, since I was a schoolkid going around to family friends'
houses to use their Sinclair ZX81s.
It really confuses the issue in Norway, where ? and ? are a *separate
letter*, totally distinct from O. (It's pronounced something like
"er"; you can find it in the name of the fairly well-known city of
Troms?.) Whereas the southern Europeans tend to think of letters with
or without accents - e or ?, o or ? - in Scandinavia, they're thought
of as letters in their own right.
I don't know what Norwegian programmers hand-wrote to distinguish O, 0
and ?! Maybe a VGA-style zero-with-a-central-dot, which doesn't seem
to have a Unicode glyph.
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Al Kossow wrote:
SORRY!
I didn't even notice the old date on a message that showed up as incoming.