text: I am European and I wrote my 7 (with line) because that's how I learned it at school. That way it's easier to distinguish from 1, which was a pointy top.\n\nNow I live in the UK and my 7s still have their line, but my 1s are just a dash now:\n\nONE = |\nSEVEN = 7 with dash\n\nIt's all a matter of teaching how to write. Does ZERO take a dash or not? How to we write AMPERSAND (&)? It's just different printing standards that probably date back centuries ago and that have carried out now...