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[Swamp Daddy]

Here's a round about way of seeing the various symbols.   This is NOT available in Wordpad or Notepad; but, if you have some version of Word (part of Microsoft's Office program) on your computer open it up.

A) Click "Insert" along the commands at the top, in the drop down menu, pick "Symbol",  in the little box labeled "Font", pick the font you normally use such as Arial or Times New Roman.  In the bigger panel just below font all of the available symbols will appear.  The number codes will appear in smaller boxes to the bottom.  Scroll through them, highlight the one you want, put the cursor in your document where you want the symbol to appear, and click the "Insert" button at the bottom of the "Symbol panel"

For those of you who do NOT have Word on your machine there is another way to get at these characters; try this (also will work under Win98) - Click start, go to "Programs", go along the list of programs to "Accessories", click that open.  Look at the list and see if "Character Map" appears if so move to it and click it open and the various ones are there.  If "Character Map does not appear, look in sub-categories of Communications, or System Tools.    If it appears nowhere you may have to install it from your Windows disc; it often does not install automatically.     email me off list for some more instructions on this, and how to do it.

alt+0162 = ¢ = cents
alt+0163 = £ = pounds
alt+0128 = € = euros

Lot of interesting characters available, usually 255 of them in every font.    Some email programs will not take the "alt+????" alternate plus 4 digit methods; but, it's easy to get around that.   open a blank document, use the alt+4 digits to get the character you want in that document, highlight it with your mouse, copy it, and then go to the email and paste it in. 

As someone noted, not all programs recognize all symbols and the results can be garbage or amusing depending on your point of view.   However, it's about as easy to type out cents as to find the symbol for it; so, there's no real problem.  If you stick with the main 255 in each font most programs will render them correctly.   However, there are thousands of symbols out there that you can use in Word.   In the "Symbol" panel when selecting a font, scroll all the way down that menu to "Wingdings" or "Webdings" and find many, many more such symbols -- generally speaking this will NOT work in email but will work in the various forms of ".doc" files used in Word.

And specialty "dings" and sets of them, can be found all over the web in those free font sites.

Harry

PS - this message sent in Unicode to retain the symbols properly.   Most email programs support Unicode.