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 Message 12861 
 mark lewis to Holger Granholm 
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 24 Oct 16 08:30:50 
 
23 Oct 16 21:44, you wrote to me:

 EV>> I looked for OH0NC at QRZ and a window appeared asking if I wanted to
 EV>> Add that Call to their Database.

 ml>> it may not be an O (oh) or a 0 (zero)... my conversion of some
 ml>> LS_ARRL posts has one character, an O (oh) with a forward slash
 ml>> through it that has no ASCII or HIGH ASCII equivalent... i have no
 ml>> clue how to make such a character, either...

actually, i do on this system which uses the "compose" method... so i hold a
special key and hit the '/' and then the 'o' or 'O' depending on if i want a
lower or upper case one...

lower case oh with slash: ?
upper case oh with slash: ?

that doesn't look like it worked in this editor like it does for other
characters :?

 HG> That character is used, to my knowledge only in danish, exists in
 HG> cp850 as char dec 157.

hunh! i should have looked closer, then...

 HG> The closest you get in cp437 is dec 237 (í), which isn't what you are
 HG> looking for.

yeah, i know...

 HG> In my conversion table from Latin-1 to PC8, I replace it with 0
 HG> (zero),

so, does your callsign really have a zero or the oh with the slash? i found
you, as noted in another post, on the HAMCall world wide call sign site by
using the oh with a slash...

 HG> although in danish text it replaces the letters ™ and ” as used in
 HG> other european countries.

 HG> There's another danish speciality, the letter combination ’ and ‘,
 HG> that the conversion program I've made, converts to Ž and „, that are
 HG> the replacements in other european languages.

i have no idea what character glyphs those are... all i see here is a tilde
(~) followed by an upper case Y, T, R, Q, N and D (in the order you typed them
above)... in this install, i'm forcing CP437 and UTF-8 characters are seen as
at least two characters and as many as four...

)\/(ark

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