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 see an L followed by a slash, as you intended, both lower case l/ and upper case L/.
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Paul Berkowitz
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