To both David and Predrag: My outgoing email uses Western European ISO (ISO-8859-1). However, incoming email uses whatever the sender selected, so it's a real puzzler. (I tried Latin-9 for a while, but encountered more problems than with Western European ISO.)
If there were to be any substitution, I would expect it to be some other special character (having the corresponding code point), rather than a numeral. The only similarity between a degree sign and a zero is visual, in that they are both circular. Logically, there is no connection. However, Outlook has come under fire for some strange abnormalities (as has Windows, generally), so this is probably one of them. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of David King >Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:11 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:31857] RE: More anti-metric trash > > >The degree signs in the original posts came through okay in my email, >maybe it got converted to something else on its way to you Bill? Your >headers suggest you use MS Outlook, which maybe what converted it. Or >some setting to do with character sets. > >David King > >** Get Fast Broadband from �14.99 >** http://tinyurl.com/5y7mf > >Excellent web hosting and email >http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=3899401 > > > >Bill Potts wrote: > >>If you want to use the degree sign (�), it's Alt+0176. A zero isn't a >>workable substitute. >> >>Bill Potts, CMS >>Roseville, CA >>http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >> >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Behalf Of Stephen Gallagher >>>Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 07:51 >>>To: U.S. Metric Association >>>Subject: [USMA:31852] RE: More anti-metric trash >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>For all I care they can change next week >>>>to Reaumur (as on >>>>the Continent) but my body knows when it has a >>>>temperature of 900 and >>>>needs a couple of aspirins, while 370C means >>>>nothing. >>>> >>>> >>>Someone should tell this author that if his body >>>has a temperature of 900 (Fahrenheit implied) that it >>>needs more than aspirins. Someone should >>>tell him that 900F is way below normal. >>> >>>But, he did get the Celsius temperature correct. >>> >>>Stephen >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >
