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Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 6:45
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:32:29 -0400 > From: John Cowan <cowan@...> > > 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).
Well, I spoke too soon --- I just got a lot of A?kwz in Chollie's last post (which otherwise proves that hotmail can send in normal Latin-1).
> The taboo characters are (by name): > > EURO SIGN > SMALL F WITH HOOK (florin sign) > HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
* Three dots ...
> DAGGER and DOUBLE DAGGER > MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX (not the same as ^) > PER MILLE SIGN > CAPITAL and SMALL S WITH CARON (hacek)
Sorry, Chollie.
> CAPITAL and SMALL Z WITH CARON (hacek)
Or was it this one?
> CAPITAL and SMALL LIGATURE OE
Sorry, France.
> LEFT- and RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (single guillemets)
Ditto.
> BULLET (not the same as MIDDLE DOT) > EM and EN DASH
* Em dash is the long one --- En dash is often the same length as a hyphen/minus, but thinner.
> SMALL TILDE (not the same as ~) > TRADEMARK SIGN > various directional quotation marks
* Aka smart quotes.
> CAPITAL Y WITH DIAERESIS (umlaut)
Some MS software is prone to putting in the ones I've starred above without the user asking for them specifically --- so please check your settings if you use that stuff. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)