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Re: OT: coins and currency

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Saturday, January 7, 2006, 16:06
On 1/7/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> I see only gibberish there, so I don't know what symbol you're talking > about,
Hotmail doesn't like UTF-8? Huh. I knew Yahoo! was lame in that regard, but I expected better from Hotmail. With the US keyboard layout, the 2 and 4 keys are thus: with shift: @ and $ with alt (option): trademark symbol (superscript TM) and US cent sign with shift+alt: euro symbol and right-single-guillemet
>but *my* mac gives @ for alt-2 and " (second mark) for alt-shift-2
Hm. What you sent is the Unicode closing double-quotation mark (that looks like a small superscript 99 with the holes filled in), but I suspect that what you meant is the vertical version (a.k.a "double prime", and much more likely to be seen as a "second mark" than the fancy version). Are you by any chance using Word to compose your email messages? I'm also surprised that @ is an alt char. What, pray tell, is shift-2 on your keyboard? -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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