Bill Hooper wrote in USMA 9189:
>Joe,
>
>Do you have a Mac or a PC? I'd be interested in knowing if the problem is
>purely a result of Apple computers using non-standard codes or if other,
>non-Apple computers have similar problems.
>
>Bill
>-----------------
>
>I had written:
>>> Several recent postings have used expressions involving the square
>>> (superscript-2) that have come through as curved quotation marks on my
>>> system (iMac).
>>> Bill Hooper
>
>... and you replied:
>> My system produces the same result as Bill's.
My Microsoft Word User's Guide says that the Windows character set has
superscript 2 as the Times character 178 and superscript 3 as the Times
character 179. The symbol character set has double-quotes and
greater-than-or-equal-to for characters 178 and 179. The Windows symbol
character for less-than-or-equal-to is 163. The Macintosh charater set has
character 178 as the Times character for less-than-or-equal-to and
double-quotes as the symbol character. Character 179 is
greater-than-or-equal-to in both Times and symbol sets.
There is clearly a job for ISO in standardizing character sets.
