Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy aSelectric?)

[Nico de Jong]

> In message <200512310902.JAA12099 at citadel.metropolis.local>
>           Stan Barr <stanb at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> > In some places it was a line through the letter O.  Mostly in Europe I
think,
> > we certainly did that as it was taught that way in ICL course material.
>
> Hmm. I was always told that "if there's any possibility of a zero being
> mistaken for an 'O', put a forward slash through the zero"...
>
Hopefully not in Denmark, this would be the character Ø. I use (even today)
put a hyphen through letter O, and nothing through figure 0.
While talking "funny" characters : we use Æ Ø and Å (Swedes use Ä instad of
Å).
Those three characters are not found in EBCDIC, so some other characters had
to be sacrified : # @ and $.
Germans have other characters too, like Ü. And that gave us a problem when
we had a prime minister called Schlüter, as ü in the German EBCDIC version
had the same value as our Ø (IIRC)

Back before 1948 or so, the Å did not exist. Before that time, Å was written
as AA.
Even today we have to handle that seperately, as names etc. did not get AA
replaced with Å
So even today, if you in a danish telphone directory want to find a name
with aa, e.g. Haase, you will find Haase behind Hy or Hz...

Talk about sorting probolems ? :-)

Nico