Re: OT: coins and currency

>From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
>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.
Apparently not. :/


> >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?
No, I use the Hotmail standard plain-text composer.
Still, after poking around a little, I've confirmed that it is indeed a
"superscript 99" quotation mark, making a 2nd appearence in an odd place.
(Normal is alt^M.) It just looks nigh-identical to the second mark in 12p
Helvetica.
It also got mangled into a regular quotation mark, as you can see. Odd that
I can send but not receive.


>I'm also surprised that @ is an alt char. What, pray tell, is shift-2
>on your keyboard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Swedish.2FFinnish
(Macs relocate the euro sign to ^4 and add all the customary alt and alt^
glyphs.)

The alt-ness of @ has indeed raised a few complaints after email has become
commonplace...

John Vertical