Re: OT: coins and currency

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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