[GreenKeys] M33 "O" (oh) vs "0" (zero)

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, nico wrote:
>> To make it even more confusing, in danish and norwegian we have the 
>> slashed oh, ( Ø on my keyboard ) which is a very normal letter
>> Nico
>>
> And that relates to some of the problems in ASCII, where Teletype people
> assumed you could do something like put a tilde or umlaut over a letter
> by backspacing and sending the overprint, while the CRT terminals mostly
> couldn't do that.
Two other issues with various ASCII "implementations:  One was the 
dotted oh - where there was a dot in the center of a capital oh- since 
that was considered easier to "read" than slashes. 

Then then there was the whole control character "thing" - where control 
characters were used as an additional shifts. Printer companies (such as 
Data South and several others) jumped on these additional shift 
characters to control everything from compressed / expanded print - to 
changing fonts - which -depending on the terminal (CRT) manufacturer - 
could cause all sorts of mayhem with the display...    The solution to 
that, of course - were the so-called Escape sequences...   Even those, 
though - would drive a SOROC IQ-120 nuts!!!! 

oh - them were the days!

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