[Dx4win] Slashed Zeros

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, wb2aiv Bill <wb2aiv at verizon.net> wrote:

> For more info on the use of 'slashed zeros' see "The Story of Zero" at
> http://www.ae7q.net/text/Zero.php .  I've used the "slashed zero Arial"
> font on DX4Win and in excel spreadsheets (where it calculates properly
> as 'zero', not as a Greek (or whatever) symbol).  It's also good for
> Word newsletters, etc.

Slashed 0 is fine as long as it used for display purposes only.  The
Consolas font I use for DX4WIN displays the 0's with a slash.
However, writing a slash-0 to an ADIF file (which this case was) is a
no-no.  It's possible that the software that generated the ADIF file
allowed you to log a callsign and type in a slash-0 for the 0.  Either
way, not good.

- Jim

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us