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Message no. 1
From: loneeagle2061@*******.com (Lone Eagle)
Subject: Character sets (was Re: Diff's between Shadowrunners
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:42:12 +0000
>From: Gurth <Gurth@******.nl>
>Anything above character number 127 is not ASCII, and ISO-8859 leaves
>numbers 128-159 (I think) empty, starting again at 160 with a non-breaking
>space. Microsoft has basically taken the 8859 specs and added more stuff in
>that 128-159 gap to create the Windows character set. As a result, on my
>computer running X Windows as a GUI, I only get question marks or blanks
>for those characters.

Worth knowing. So when I key Alt+0174 everyone will get the registered
trademark ® symbol; and important characters like my vulgars and my
superscript numbers are likewise intact, but my TM and my "smart quotes" are
out.

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Character sets (was Re: Diff's between Shadowrunners
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:35:51 +0200
According to Lone Eagle, on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 the word on the street was...

> Worth knowing. So when I key Alt+0174 everyone will get the registered
> trademark ® symbol and important characters like my vulgars and my
> superscript numbers are likewise intact

I do see an R in a circle, yes. I'm not sure how well this works with
subsets of the ISO-8859 specs, though, as these differ in some characters
(for example, 8859-1 has characters for western European languages, but
8859-2 is for eastern European ones using the Latin alphabet, while 8859-10
is Hebrew, just to name a few I can remember off the top of my head).

> but my TM and my "smart quotes" are out.

Yes. At least, if you want everyone to be able to read them :)

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Message no. 3
From: dam01@***.edu.au (Damion Milliken)
Subject: Character sets (was Re: Diff's between Shadowrunners
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:17:01 +1000
Lone Eagle writes:

> Worth knowing. So when I key Alt+0174 everyone will get the registered
> trademark ® symbol; and important characters like my vulgars and my
> superscript numbers are likewise intact, but my TM and my "smart quotes"
> are out.

Actually, I might suggest that the trademark symbol is out, too. To me it
looks like

<AE>

or

\256

depending on how I view it. Neither is exactly correct ;-).

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