In a message on Wednesday 10-24-16 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Good morning Mark,

 ml>> it may not be an O (oh) or a 0 (zero)... my conversion of some
 ml>> LS_ARRL posts has one character, an O (oh) with a forward slash

I really haven't noticed that, but it will go unnoticed by me, since the
Latin-1 to PC8 conversion, takes care of that as 0 (zero).

ml> actually, i do on this system which uses the "compose" method... so
ml> i hold a special key and hit the '/' and then the 'o' or 'O'
ml> depending on if i want a lower or upper case one...

ml> lower case oh with slash: ?
ml> upper case oh with slash: ?

Lower case with slash is simply the danish ” (o with 2 dots on top),
nothing else.

Upper case with slash is in reality the danish ™ (O with dots on top),
but is wrongly used in other countries as a 0 (zero).

ml> so, does your callsign really have a zero or the oh with the slash?
ml> i found you, as noted in another post, on the HAMCall world wide
ml> call sign site by using the oh with a slash...

My call sign has a 0 (zero) as middle character, but I have myself fallen
into the trap of using the danish ™, as zero. The use of it is a world
wide phenomen in ham radio.

In the Finnish army's signal corps we were taught to use underscore
below the O (oh), to make it a zero, when copying by hand.

 HG> There's another danish speciality, the letter combination ’ and ‘,
 HG> that the conversion program I've made, converts to Ž and „, .....

ml> i have no idea what character glyphs those are... all i see here is
ml> a tilde (~) followed by an upper case Y, T, R, Q, N and D (in the
ml> order you typed them above)... in this install, i'm forcing CP437
ml> and UTF-8 characters are seen as at least two characters and as many
ml> as four...

They are character codes dec146 and dec145 in the cp437.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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