In message , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
The message
from "Alan Holmes" contains these words:

?39, not £39. That's about £26 - special offer, down from ?59
(lucky me), not including the gas canister.
Welcome to Rip Off Ireland :-)

The Euro sign does not feature in any standard ASCII set, so those of us
who have protocol compliant newsreaders are either seeing a question
mark, or a black rectangle.

Not necessarily, mine is compliant but can additionally show the Euro
character in this case.

Be sure that symbols you use are supported by standards, or you will be
misunderstood - at best.

Indeed
--
Chris French