From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael at kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:36:48 +0000 Subject: [COFF] On having a slash In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <197d2ed4-0b12-4e11-bf8a-bc2f8d18e3cc@localhost> On 13 Apr 2020 09:23 -0400, from cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo): > For zeroes and oscars, I dimly recall -- or possibly hallucinate -- > that some primeval standard specified putting a tail on oscar and > leaving zero alone. A bit of searching turned up nothing, though. The original Palm Pilot "Graffiti" alphabet, designed to use single-stroke for all unaccented characters, had O (oh) and 0 (zero) both as plain circles drawn counterclockwise starting at the top (separated into different drawing areas so the OS would know which you intended), but Q was drawn as an O with a short tail to the right at the end. Might that possibly be what you're recalling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”