Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: uunet.uu.net!mcvax!cgch!wtho@cs.utexas.edu (Tom Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Rotary-dial Encoding Message-ID: Date: 3 Aug 89 07:44:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: WRZ, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd, Basel, Switzerland Lines: 30 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 277, message 10 of 11 From article , by euatdt@euas11g. ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist): > Third: "Oslo" dialling (the Norwegian Capital is different from the > rest of the country. Historical reasons?): > (10-n)-dialling (or is it (10-(n+1))?); The dial works "backwards" and > looks quite funny to the newcomer. I'm not sure if the coding is 1=>10, > 2=>9...0=>1 or 0=>10, 1=>9... 9=>1. Somebody out there to fill me in? I recall it is the latter: 0=>10, 1=>9... 9=>1. Another apparently not standardized feature is the keypad layout of push-button phones. In central Europe it is: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 It can be confusing since it is not the same layout as for calculators. I think in parts of Scandinavia (Sweden?) it is homogeneous: 7 8 9 4 5 6 1 2 3 0 Can someone confirm that? Are there any other layouts? Special keypad for Oslo? Mirror-image layout on the southern hemisphere? Tom Hofmann wtho@cgch.UUCP