[MCARC] events

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2024 20 Sep 15:28 -0500, Dave Crawford wrote:
> On my MacBook a slashed Ø is Shift, Option o (the letter o).  On my
> iPhone and iPad I can just hold down on the uppercase O and some
> options popup, one of which is the slashed zero.

Those characters are not an ASCII 0 but a character from another
language's alphabet set.  Selecting those characters results in
something other than an ASCII 0 being present in a document.  While it
may look like what you want, a slashed zero, on the screen, it is not a
zero at all as far as the underlying character code is concerned.

An example would be copying and pasting such a character into an input
field that expects and tests for only numeric characters.  It won't
work.

The proper thing to do is to install a font that features a slashed zero
and use it.  Many such fonts exist and are available from various sites
including Google fonts.

73, Nate

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