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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...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Am I bugging you? Good!       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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