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Towards standards for handwritten zero and oh: much ado about nothing (and a letter), or a partial dossier on distinguishing between handwritten zero and oh

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The Chairman of the ACM Standards Committee, Julien Green, has charged me with making “more effective use of CACM for communication … to get grass-roots opinions from the ACM membership.” This paper is the first attempt.

A partial dossier on distinguishing between handwritten zero and the letter oh is assembled here. This presentation was triggered by a request for guidance in this matter presented by the United Kingdom Delegation to ISO/TC97/SC2, Character Sets and Coding, at the meeting in Paris on 1967 March 13-16. The matter is just now in the province of USASI X3.6, to which comments might be directed.

Comments will be expected within sixty days [by approximately October 1st].

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 10, Issue 8
        Aug. 1967
        64 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/363534
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        • Published: 1 August 1967

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