L - slash = stroked L (Polish?)

[henryn]

Title: L - slash = stroked L (Polish?)

Folks:

Entourage 2004
MacOS 10.3.7

I use Times New Roman exclusively when composing emails in Entourage.  

Lately I've been noticing that when I enter text --typically URLs-- in Entourage, the  "L" followed by a slash is rendered as what I think is a Polish character.  In Character Palette I find these are called called "Latin ... Letter L with stroke".

I'll try to show you.  On the next line I'm going to type some spaces followed by a lower case "L" followed by a slash:

     l/

And on the next line I'm going to do the same thing, substituting a capital L:

     L/

On my screen these look like what I imagine to be Polish characters.   (See the table at the bottom of

   http://www.biega.com/special-char.html

and look for character codes 142 and 141 to see the stroked-L characters. )

Part of the difficulty is I don't know what people see at the other end when they receive the email from me.   Do you see "a stroked L" or "L followed by a slash" above?   If I copy each of the above lines and paste them into, say,  TextEdit or Word, I see what I typed, i.e., "L followed by a slash" so I guess you'll see that, too.     

I have not seen this issue in any application besides Entourage.

It gets real complicated to send a URL containing an L followed by a slash to a civilian and explain what might be happening to the URL.

By the same token,  I'm noticing this stroked L more and more often in incoming message bodies, typically when someone sends me a URL in an email.

#1 Why is this happening?  Version-specific?

#2 What can I do to render L followed by slash as just that in Entourage?

Thanks,

Henry

Henry Neugass
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