At 07:47 PM 1/3/99 -0800, Barry Lee Brisco so eloquently stated:
>>Interesting, and good evidence of why service bureaus (which are usually
>>Mac-based) say that special characters on PCs are a pain. Whenever George
>>types that special character, it shows up in my email on my Mac as a round
>>bullet (which on a Mac is typed with option 8). However, when Barry types
>>it, it does look something like a cap C with an equal sign in the middle on
>>my Mac, as George described what he gets when he types it on his PC.
>>
>>My prediction for 1999 is that to prevent confusion, we're going to abandon
>>the special characters in favor of something like Euro$, $Euro, or $E.
>
>
>Suz, when I type <Option> <Shift> 2 on my Mac I do not see anything like a
>Euro symbol (and it's been all over the news lately, I know what it is
>supposed to look like :) Here it is again.
>
>�
>
>To me it looks like a circle with a small diagonal line outside the circle
>pointing outwards at what would be the four "corners" of the circle if it
>was a square (hope that makes sense :) So you seem to be seeing something
>different than what I am seeing. How odd.
>
>I say just type "Euro".
>
Barry, that's not the technological way. Everybody knows we need
to spend countless people-decades of trying to get something new to work ;-).
Do you have that symbol in your fonts? Perhaps Mac's don't
recognize anything but $
G
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