On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:04:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I don't understand this. It appears that not all list members are
> receiving upper ascii characters exactly as I send them. The characters
> I send ought to be the same characters you receive. If this is not the
> case, then there are some very serious errors somewhere.
> I hope somebody can please explain what might be wrong.
I said: (without completing the explanation)
Hi Sam;
What we see depends not only on what you send, but what browser we
view them with. I viewed your original post with both NS 2.02 and
Arachne. The characters displayed looked reasonable to me in both.
and I should have added:
You send a code for some character - NOT a character.
The numbers from 0 to 127 are each taken to represent a certain
character in the ASCII standard. This doesn't have to be the case
if you make up your own character set, and will work fine as long
as the persons receiving the message have the correct dictionary.
The numbers from 128 to 255 are interpreted differently depending
on the browser and its' settings.
Sorry I forgot the explanation last time.
- Clarence Verge
-- Using Arachne 1.50b2 for a change.
