Bill,
I have messed about with my fonts and finally seem to be having some success+ACEAIQ-
I now use the ALT+-4 key combination and the euro mark comes out the way it is
supposed to look, like this:
+IKw-
........rather than like this:
?
It seems that European computer keyboards must be set up slightly differently to
American ones as I can use the ALT+-4 combination to get the euro symbol+ACEAIQ-
I can also use (as suggested by some on the mailing list) the left-hand ALT key and
entering 0128 on the numeric keypad (NOT the numbers on the top row)+ACEAIQ-
It seems Unicode is the best way to send the +IKw- euro symbol without it appearing as
a question mark or anything else+ACEAIQ-
Either that or use (uh-oh) HTML format+ACEAIQ-
Regards,
Steve.
stevo.davis+AEA-btinternet.com
----- Original Message -----
From: +ACI-Barbara and/or Bill Hooper+ACI- +ADw-hooper+AEA-net-magic.net+AD4-
To: +ACI-U.S. Metric Association+ACI- +ADw-usma+AEA-colostate.edu+AD4-
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 3:00 AM
Subject: +AFs-USMA:17436+AF0- Re: The Euro Sign+ACEAIQ-
on 1/13/2002 2:43 PM, Stephen Davis at Stevo.Davis+AEA-btinternet.com wrote:
(It would have been easier...)
+AD4- if you had simply said press
+AD4- ALT, then the 4 key on your keyboard+ACEAIQ-
(... to get the euro symbol).
The keystroke +ACI-alt-4+ACI- on my Mac gives the cents symbol, not the euro symbol.
I enter it here several times:
+AMIAog- +AMIAog- +AMIAog-
four cents +AD0- 4+AMIAog-
The price is 25+AMIAog-.
I used alt-4 for each occurance. Did you all get the cents symbol or did you
get the euro symbol?
I get the euro symbol be using alt-shift-2 (which can also be expressed as
alt-+AEA-, since shift-2 is the +AEA- symbol). I enter that symbol here several
times:
+AOIAggCs- +AOIAggCs- +AOIAggCs-
four euro +AD0- 4+AOIAggCs-
The price is 25 +AOIAggCs- .
Did you get the euro symbol here, or something else?
What you get may also depend on what font you're using. I tried the above
message in several different fonts and got the cents and euro symbol in most
of them, but occasionally I found a font that gives a different symbol (or
no recognizable symbol at all) for those special symbols. One of those fonts
didn't even express correctly the perfectly ordinary key strokes for the
equals sign (+AD0-), the at symbol (+AEA-) or the greater-than symbol (+AD4-).
The main thing to learn here is that special symbols (and even sometimes
regular symbols) cannot be relied upon to get through email and come out on
the receiver's end looking the same as they did when the went in on the
sender's end. AVOID SPECIAL SYMBOLS in email unless you are willing to add a
note to clarify them for those whose may not receive them the way they were
sent.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
PS
My +ACI-alt+ACI- key is also labelled the +ACI-option+ACI- key on my Mac. I may have
called
that key +ACI-opt+ACI- in other messages I've sent.
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