In article <[email protected]>, Ralph
Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:

[snip]

Thanks for that info! Quite interesting.

> Vowels (a, e, i, o, u) are not used, so that offensive words cannot be
>     generated inadvertently.  

Ah! OK. I'd assumed that i and o were omitted to avoid confusion with j and
0. With some fonts some characters can look very similar, at least to my
poor eyesight.

Jim

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