Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> Now that we're talking charsets. PC users, remember to keep away from
> the Windows-specific extension characters. (This is not aimed at Oskar
> --- in fact noone's doing it right now, but it used to be a problem).
The taboo characters are (by name):

        EURO SIGN
        SMALL F WITH HOOK (florin sign)
        HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
        DAGGER and DOUBLE DAGGER
        MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX (not the same as ^)
        PER MILLE SIGN
        CAPITAL and SMALL S WITH CARON (hacek)
        CAPITAL and SMALL Z WITH CARON (hacek)
        CAPITAL and SMALL LIGATURE OE
        LEFT- and RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (single guillemets)
        BULLET (not the same as MIDDLE DOT)
        EM and EN DASH
        SMALL TILDE (not the same as ~)
        TRADEMARK SIGN
        various directional quotation marks
        CAPITAL Y WITH DIAERESIS (umlaut)

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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