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Re: Examples #5: Translate the One Ring poem

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 19, 2005, 21:44
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@O...>
wrote:

>Ha. That's a euro symbol :). As for why you get it, who knows? It >doesn't seem to resolve to anything sensible in any encoding I try; >I guess that the message has been mangled along the way somewhere >>
(maybe the server, which mistreats certain Latin-1 chars (IIRC). I "turned in" my LOTR poem (127115), but in order to do it I had to avoid the use of vowels with accents. The other characters (µ, Þ, etc.) didn't affect the text. Go figure! Charlie http://wiki.frath.net/User:Caerleancentaur