Sacha wrote:
On 23/11/05 9:26 pm, in article ,
"Mike
Lyle" wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
Admittedly, if it DID reach me as one, I would be worrying how
you
had hacked into my computer :-) Usenet uses ASCII - there is
no
Euro symbol in ASCII.
Alt + 0128 = Euro
Alt + 0208 = Deutchmark
OK, I'll try.
Alt+0128...?
Alt+1208...
How'd I do?
Well, there we a DMark fine, but euro, question mark. As I,
too,
thought, there really is no euro symbol in ASCII, which is a
pretty
old convention, after all.
I have no idea but.....? is the Euro symbol produced by the alt
key
alone on my Mac using what my own headers tell me is
Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309. I'll be interested to see how it
turns out when I see it as posted to the group.
PS: Having tried to press 'send' I'm now told this has to be sent
as
Unicode which might not work with 'older mail clients'. As I feel
that I fit firmly into that bracket, I'm going to say 'yes'.
Anything for a new experience........
OK, that displayed correctly on my OE: this is presumably because OE
is a Microsoft product, and you're using a Microsoft standard. It
won't always be compatible with ASCII, which is (as far as I know,
anyhow) the only universal standard. The Unicode thing rumbles on and
on; I've long since stopped thinking about it, but there'll be a
solution one day. Bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, too --
just you wait and see...
--
Mike.