In a message on Tuesday 10-23-16 mark lewis said to Ed Vance:   
      
   Good morning Mark,   
      
    EV> I will have to look the next time I visit qrz.com to see what the   
    EV> Number Zero looks like, iirc it is a plain old Zero, not dot nor   
    EV> slash.   
      
   ml> ok... just note that the ones i linked above are not dotted or   
   ml> slashed zeros... they are a completely different letter of that   
   ml> alphabet... one that does not exist in english...   
      
   Not in any other language I know, except in danish. In danish it   
   replaces the letter 'O' (oh) with two dots above. The 'O' with two dots   
   is used in other scandinavian languages, and in german.   
      
   AFAIK, the slashed O is available in cp850, but I don't use that.   
      
   ml> when i looked for just a plain O (oh), their site worked but found   
   ml> nothing... then it wouldn't let me search for holger's name unless i   
   ml> was logged in... oh well, there's other sites available ;)   
      
   To see what info QRZ displayed about my call sign, I too had to login.   
   That was the same as registering, so I received a password by e-mail.   
      
   Maybe there is no info to my call, in that case I'll have to update it,   
   or correct the info if it's wrong.   
      
   ml> that callsign at all... then i went by the HAMCall World-Wide site   
   ml> and they had no trouble finding it at all...   
      
   ml> http://hamcall.net/call?callsign=OH%D8NC   
      
   ml> it is the O (oh) with a slash through it but the sad/wrong part is   
   ml> that when they display it beside holger's name, they use a zero   
   ml> instead of what it actually is... yeah, i zoomed in on it to see   
   ml> specifically what they are using...   
      
   That's also what I have programmed into my editors Latin-1 to PC8   
   conversion table. Among others, the swedes do use the slashed O for zero   
   in their bulletins, and I'm myself am a culprit of doing the same.   
      
   Actually, most hams use it to discern zero from the letter O.   
      
   While doing my military duty in the signal corps, we were told to   
   underscore the O, to identify it as a zero. Much better in my mind.   
      
      
   Have a nice day,   
      
   Holger   
      
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