BARRY HOLLAND presented the following explanation :
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> From: Bruce Napier <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 11:35:35
> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Regents Canal - Camden - lock gate problem
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> On 17 Feb 2009, at 10:27, BARRY HOLLAND wrote:
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>> Bruce, what is this strange Chinese-like symbol that has recently
>> started showing on all your e-mails? Is it you featuring it [in
>> which case,where does it feature on the keyboard?]or is it yet
>> another anomaly of this library computer?
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> We had a thread about this a while back. It's actually the double
> hyphen marker at the top of my signature, but for reason we never got
> to the bottom of, discrepancies between character sets mean that some
> systems produce that Chinese character instead.
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> All the best
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> Bruce
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> Ahso! Strange though, that it's only just started showing up in your last few
> posts--where's it been? Perhaps celebrating the year of the ox! :-)) Barry
> Nb inscrutable.
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I only see it when Barry replies to you.