>>>>> "JWK" == John W Kennedy <[email protected]> writes:
JWK> On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Robert Abel wrote: >> So I don't think that we _could do without_ those characters having >> different code points today. Even back then it must have seemed like >> a hack to type a lowercase L instead of a 1. JWK> It did, young feller, it did, by cracky! And, as a matter of fact, JWK> electric typewriters had a slightly different keyboard, one JWK> including proper 1, 0, and ! keys. Even many mechanical typewriters did. (My parents' typewriters were both made by the same company; hers had the 0 and 1 keys whereas his did not. Having found and tried out hers first, when I did play with his -- I was 8 or 9 at the time -- I had no idea how to type 0 or 1. Using Oh and el did not occur to me.) (His was early 1950's vintage, hers late 1950's vintage.) -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
