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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...   
      
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