[RTTY] "Slashed" Zeros vs. the number "Zero"

[Peter Laws]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Peter Laws wrote:

> I think what N1ND is getting at is that folks are putting non-ASCII 
> slashed zeros in their Cabrillo files.  There *is* a slashed zero around, 
> though I can't input it on this terminal to demonstrate (easily done on 
> the web with Ø) but it is NOT an ASCII character.  Pretty sure the 
> Cabrillo spec says ASCII only.
> 
> As an aside, this terminal can't do anything fancy at all, like ISO-8859-1 
> accented characters, and it drives me nuts.  On my Solaris systems at 
> work, dtterm shows accents just fine.


Ø - I'm at work where I have a proper terminal.  The character at the left 
margin is NOT ASCII, and I think that's what N1ND was referring to.  Sure 
looks neat in a zero-land callsign, though.  :-)


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73,
Peter Laws  
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