13 Apr
2020
13 Apr
'20
7:36 p.m.
On 13 Apr 2020 09:23 -0400, from cym224(a)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)
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