10-23-16 08:30 mark lewis wrote to Ed Vance about Locator maps
Howdy! Mark,

 ml> {at}MSGID: 
 ml> 22 Oct 16 21:02, you wrote to me:

 ml>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00d8/index.htm

 ml>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00F8/index.htm

 EV> I will have to look the next time I visit qrz.com to see what the Number
 EV> Zero looks like, iirc it is a plain old Zero, not dot nor slash.

 ml> ok... just note that the ones i linked above are not dotted or slashed
 ml> zeros... they are a completely different letter of that alphabet... one
 ml> that does not exist in english...

I used a calculator to convert the Hex numbers to Decimal and looked at
what ALT 216 and ALT 248 in a COMMAND Prompt looked like.

ALT 248 looked to me like a Degree Sign, I have no idea what the other
Symbol meant.

BTW I hadn't looked at the QRZ.COM page, but I see below that You have.

 EV> I believe when I Search for someone or log on to the site, they are
 EV> using CP437. But I'm in the U.S.A., a person outside the U.S.A. may
 EV> see their web site displaying the Code Page for their locale.

 ml> when i tried searching QRZ using the slashed O (oh not zero), their
 ml> site was dumping on me and causing firefox to abort with a notice that
 ml> the site was using an unknown compression method... when i looked for
 ml> just a plain O (oh), their site worked but found nothing... then it
 ml> wouldn't let me search for holger's name unless i was logged in... oh
 ml> well, there's other sites available ;)

 ml> FWIW: i just also searched the ARRL site and they could not find that
 ml> callsign at all... then i went by the HAMCall World-Wide site and they
 ml> had no trouble finding it at all...

 ml> http://hamcall.net/call?callsign=OH%D8NC

I never used that website B4, Thanks!

 ml> it is the O (oh) with a slash through it but the sad/wrong part is that
 ml> when they display it beside holger's name, they use a zero instead of
 ml> what it actually is... yeah, i zoomed in on it to see specifically what
 ml> they are using...

I will use the Print Scr Key a lot of times and Paste it in IraFanview so
I can enlarge it to see what a tiny character looks like.

 ml> FWIW2: the last time someone searched this callsign on HAMCall was 21
 ml> Mar 2016 and that was the 37th search for that callsign...

 ml> it should also be noted that code pages are no longer used... character
 ml> sets are used today and most web sites are using ISO-8859-1 or similar
 ml> or they are using UTF-8... the whole mishmash has changed under us...

Thanks for EDucating ED about CP vs ISO/UTF-8.

There's No Wedge Here (except the one on the Commodore 64 PC's 1541 FDD).

73 . .


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