This is most bizarre!... :-S Your message came fine, Jim. And when I used your suggestion all symbols "printed" fine in my monitor, but upon sending it via angelfire's server it got "bastardized" to some unrecognizable 0, 5, 7 and 1! :-S
I wonder if this would also happen with another free e-mail service, like yahoo, or hotmail... Pity... It seems like we still don't seem to have an adequate ultimate final solution to this conundrum... And I had high hopes for it... Marcus On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:19:53 Ma Be wrote: >Hmm... Let's see if this will work: >0571 >This looked fine by me in my home computer. I'd have to try it "on the road" (work, >etc) though. > >Thanks, Jim. Let's hear from the gang and wait to see if ALL got the above ok. In >the meantime, would you be so kind as to refer me to where I could obtain this "new" >table (or provide me (in private) with an attachment I could print)? The one I have >contains only 3-digit "alt" codes. Thank you kindly. > >Since I'm at it. Would you know of any means I could print the elusive "a~" (a with >the tilde *on top of it*). I can't find any easy way to print this anywhere... >Thanks for any info you could provide me on this. > >Marcus > >On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:53:10 > James R. Frysinger wrote: >>Marcus, >> >>A few years ago I made a short table of symbols that are more likely >>than others to translate well across platforms. Those are, with their PC >>keystrokes: >> 0 Alt-0176 degree circle >> 5 Alt-0181 mu >> 7 Alt-0183 raised dot >> 1 Alt-0177 plus/minus >>When I was using Windows regularly, those are the key-shortcuts I used. >>I've used my character map to write the symbols above so I'm not sure if >>they will come out the same, but I think that they might. By the way, >>you must include the zero (0) in those shortcuts! >> >>The sources of this information were Dennis Brownridge, Bob Baumer, and >>Markus Kuhn. In fact, I believe that if you go to the page linked on >>USMA's home page for Markus Kuhn's article on computer typography, you >>will see the same advice. >> >>Jim >> >>Ma Be wrote: >>> >>> Dear John, >>> >>> Thanks for the info, but I do have the ASCII code table handy... What I meant was >that unfortunately there seems not be be any guarantee at all that by using alt-230 >the symbol for 'mu' will appear correctly to all. That's the difficulty here. Just >so you know what I mean, I'm using it here now as in micrometer: ?m! ;-) >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:37:32 >>> John Woelflein wrote: >>> > >>> > Have you tried to hold down the Alt key (presuming you work on a PC and not a >Mac) and pressing 230 on the numeric keypad? >>> > Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:20:44 >>> >>Marcus Berger wrote: >>> >> >>> >>"... sorry, guys, don't have the "micro" symbol here ..." >>> > >>> >Slan, >>> >John >>> > >>> > >>> >--------------------------------- >>> >Do You Yahoo!? >>> >Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! >>> >>> Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably >>> Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. >>> Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com >> >>-- >>Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" >>James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ >>10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 >> >> > > >Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably >Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. >Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com > > Is your boss reading your email? ....Probably Keep your messages private by using Lycos Mail. Sign up today at http://mail.lycos.com
