[Elecraft] OT - Type font question
Peter PA0PJE
pa0pje at xs4all.nl
Sat Feb 16 13:25:48 EST 2008
Fred Jensen wrote:
> In answer to Ken's question, my guess is that font doesn't matter with
> Paypal, banking, or anybody else. The ASCII codes for zero and the
> letter O are different and that's all any confuser cares about. How it
> is rendered on the screen or on paper is not relevant. Unless of course
> the slashed zero is yet another ASCII code?
>
Well, be it known that there is a slashed O as well, in Nordic
languages. It exists in the extended ASCII code as well, although not
eveyone can read it, depending on what codepage was used.
I know that the TrueType font "Terminal" has the slashed zero an in some
PSK software you can choose the zero to be slashed or not.
73
Peter, PA0PJE
or PAØPJE (if you have the right character set...:-)
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