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Default [OT] handrwriting conventions

In article , says...

Like a barred z comes from maths background, the slashed zero is
pretty universal


I thought that decades ago Microsoft had a convention of slashing an oh
to distinguish from zero (while others did the inverse). Maybe they had
to fall in line, for once!

Mike.