> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>
> >
> > Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion
> > introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters.
> > (I have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who
> > will, if not stopped, use lower-case "L" instead of the digit "one"
> > and sometimes even upper-case "O" instead of digit "zero".)
> >
>
> Oh man, that takes me back! I learned how to type back in the '70s on
> an old manual typewriter. I had forgotten how it didn't have those
> keys! I can also remember forming an exclamation mark with an
> apostrophe, back-space, and period. And of course, no ~`[]{}<>\ or |.
>
> And Dan Rather can tell you about the lack of any kind of real super-
> or sub-scripting back then, too.
>
> Rod
>
My super- and sub scripting was done by turning the platten a wee bit.
Not that very consistent tho. Some of the other signss were done with a thin
nib
and black ink. I think that I still have the typwritter from back then.
Chris
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