[78-L] Fwd: Montréal^

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter at cpl.net>
> Howard Friedman wrote:
>> Invert ? can be obtained with ALT +0191 - ¿.  Inverted ! must be around 
>> somewhere.  And of course you use the numerical key pad.  and ALT+o230 or 
>> ALT + 145 = æ or ALT +146= Æ and ALT+0198 - Æ.  They're all there, it 
>> just takes a little time and patience to find them all.  I believe ALT 
>> +o161 = ¡
>
> Like the euro, pound and cents sign previously requested, those are not
> part of the HTML1 alphabet so may be inconsistent depending on the
> user's typeface. Unfortunately, the ess-zed sent by many German
> keyboards is not the beta which is very similar and standard. As a
> result, if you send beta to a German, it will seem right, but his
> ess-zed will probably be wrong to you.
>
> Many characters which look similar or identical have different ASCII
> values in at least some alphabets. Hyphen and en-dash are obvious
> examples, but there are more. E-mailing from MSWord to anyone not using
> that program often stumbles on those.
>
Another thing I often see in e-mail is text copied directly from MS Word,
which uses some non-ASCII characters (like "curly" quotes...!). Wherever
these occur in the original text, unexpected characters are substituted...?!

...stevenc