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Re: What About Areas Where Alphabet is Not Like Ours?

Barry Margolin (barmar@alum.mit.edu)
Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:16:47 -0500

In article <telecom26.40.7@telecom-digest.org>, Joe Tibiletti
<joetib@cox.net> wrote:

> I raise the question, what does the telephone dial look like in areas
> with alphabets different fron our own, such as Cairo, Egypt, or
> Beijing, China, or Oslo, Norway? Before the time of dial phones, how
> did operators communicate with multi lengual populations?.

It's my understanding that the addition of letters on the dial is
mostly an American thing, and European phones don't generally have
them at all. I expect this is similar in most of the countries you
mention, although I found a web page that mentioned that Russian
phones used to have cyrillic letters on them, but they don't any more.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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