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Re: Problem finding telephonenumber in a plain numeric search when number is stored with special characters





--On Monday, August 29, 2005 11:43 AM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu> wrote:

Look for the entry from * Mark J Cuccia, Sat, 2 Nov 1996*

Hm, every cell phone I've had in the last 7 years has pqrs on 7, and wxyz on 9. So do both my land line phones. At this point, I'd say this has become the de facto standard. I do recall "qz" on the 0 key back in the early 90's, but as noted, it didn't last.

This page is a good read, as well, and references the ITU standard assigning "q" to 7 and "z" to 9:


<http://www.dialabc.com/words/history.html>

--Quanah

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