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Originally Posted by DaleDe
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Thanks. I'll toss that on my resource list.
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
The only difference is the height of the number. In your example it would be the same height as the o.
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Since we don't have access to old-style figures here on MobileRead... the IOlo were approximations of what it looks like on paper.
And OCR
definitely trips up on books with old-style numbers, so it's a very common error to look for:
I always do a Regex+Spellcheck pass for O/o or l/I next to a number (I942 -> 1942). And 1,ooo -> 1,000 is pretty common too.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
I'd forgotten that gem. OTOH, you can do that with C and = too. I remember using non-destructive print backspace in Wordstar in early 1980s for creative characters on stupid printers. [...]
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Way before my time... but C and =, I assume it was an approximation for € Euro?
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Also it was only 7 bit ASCII so the only way to do accented letters.
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Yuck. Glad those times are over. :P