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|    mark lewis to Ed Vance    |
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|    23 Oct 16 08:30:28    |
      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.              ok... just note that the ones i linked above are not dotted or slashed       zeros... they are a completely different letter of that alphabet... one that       does not exist in english...               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.              when i tried searching QRZ using the slashed O (oh not zero), their site was       dumping on me and causing firefox to abort with a notice that the site was       using an unknown compression method... when i looked for just a plain O (oh),       their site worked but found nothing... then it wouldn't let me search for       holger's name unless i was logged in... oh well, there's other sites available       )              FWIW: i just also searched the ARRL site and they could not find that callsign       at all... then i went by the HAMCall World-Wide site and they had no trouble       finding it at all...              http://hamcall.net/call?callsign=OH%D8NC              it is the O (oh) with a slash through it but the sad/wrong part is that when       they display it beside holger's name, they use a zero instead of what it       actually is... yeah, i zoomed in on it to see specifically what they are       using...              FWIW2: the last time someone searched this callsign on HAMCall was 21 Mar 2016       and that was the 37th search for that callsign...              it should also be noted that code pages are no longer used... character sets       are used today and most web sites are using ISO-8859-1 or similar or they are       using UTF-8... the whole mishmash has changed under us...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Ice Cream for Windows: _Hoggin' DOS_, From Micro Softee Freeze       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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