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   mark lewis to Holger Granholm   
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   24 Oct 16 08:30:50   
   
   23 Oct 16 21:44, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV>> I looked for OH0NC at QRZ and a window appeared asking if I wanted to   
    EV>> Add that Call to their Database.   
      
    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   
    ml>> through it that has no ASCII or HIGH ASCII equivalent... i have no   
    ml>> clue how to make such a character, either...   
      
   actually, i do on this system which uses the "compose" method... so i hold a   
   special key and hit the '/' and then the 'o' or 'O' depending on if i want a   
   lower or upper case one...   
      
   lower case oh with slash: ?   
   upper case oh with slash: ?   
      
   that doesn't look like it worked in this editor like it does for other   
   characters :?   
      
    HG> That character is used, to my knowledge only in danish, exists in   
    HG> cp850 as char dec 157.   
      
   hunh! i should have looked closer, then...   
      
    HG> The closest you get in cp437 is dec 237 (í), which isn't what you are   
    HG> looking for.   
      
   yeah, i know...   
      
    HG> In my conversion table from Latin-1 to PC8, I replace it with 0   
    HG> (zero),   
      
   so, does your callsign really have a zero or the oh with the slash? i found   
   you, as noted in another post, on the HAMCall world wide call sign site by   
   using the oh with a slash...   
      
    HG> although in danish text it replaces the letters ™ and ” as used in   
    HG> other european countries.   
      
    HG> There's another danish speciality, the letter combination ’ and ‘,   
    HG> that the conversion program I've made, converts to Ž and „, that are   
    HG> the replacements in other european languages.   
      
   i have no idea what character glyphs those are... all i see here is a tilde   
   (~) followed by an upper case Y, T, R, Q, N and D (in the order you typed them   
   above)... in this install, i'm forcing CP437 and UTF-8 characters are seen as   
   at least two characters and as many as four...   
      
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