I have come to believe that the Fibernet computer is programmed to ignore or alter 'non standard' characters in the message bodies to prevent malicious virus, etc. from being able to spread or run on list member's computers. I do not know of any malicious action that can be initiated from the subject line so it *should* be safe.
I know for a fact that the following symbol (the cents symbol) rendered correctly on the SheepThrills list last year. So let's try it here: --> " <-- This was/is the cents symbol in Arial (font type) . I obtained the symbol by going to a word processing program, open a new page, and then using the "Insert" then "Symbol" then Arial font... then select the symbol, then copy the symbol from the work page and pasted it into this message. "Arial" font is supposed to be common to almost all computers so they should all be able to display it. Tracy Eichheim Husband of Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cj. Aberte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:49 PM Subject: Re: "0" Computer display of "degree" symbol > At 01:24 PM 11/16/2005, you wrote: > >At 08:28 -0700 Earth time on 051116 Jean Eichheim sent > > Ok.. I'm computer illiterate enough to be confused by this whole thing... > > 1. I've *never* been able to put the "degree" symbol up.. I don't > have a numeric keyboard (laptop without) and it's functionally > impossible with my arthritis in hands to reach all the various > alt.... keys to get to it (if it would work even then..) > > 2. I'm even MORE confused by the fact that the "degree" symbol is > coming through on the titles of messages just fine, but it's NOT > coming through on message bodies <????> HUH? what is that? It sounds > fairly obvious (??) that the computer and the mail program must both > support the symbol <Ron's Swedish symbols don't come through either > but then I've got some other symbols that even my browser doesn't > support (in English, for goodness sakes). I'm on an XP system using > Eudora (if anyone cares..). > > Thanks to all of you that are tracking this program. It's always been > somewhat of a pain and I'm dye <ggg) -ing to figger it out since it's > one of those things that I use at least semi-frequently.... > > > > Cj. Aberte > Melbourne, FL USA > > To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
