| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: [OT] Mailer compatibility |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 11:41:05 +0100 |
> Oddly enough, both of those showed up as a yen sign in my mailer (MS-Ex
> Client v4 using courier new font) and can be entered as either
> alt-combo.
Same here, I noticed when I typed them in. (In Pegasus for Windows using
MS Sans Serif.)
> I don't know what this means, save that windows has some bizzare
> backwards-compatibility stuff.
It actually makes sense, somewhat -- if you put a 0 before the character
number, it gives a TrueType character, while without the 0, Windows must
somehow do a quick DOS -> TTF conversion and give the right character
anyway.
> (I'd be curious how Gurth's comes out - after being reprocessed by my
> mailer - in a mailreader that sees a difference between char 0165 and
> char 157).
I think 0165 would show up either as a weird code or as another character
entirely. You could save the message, go to a DOS prompt, and do a Type on
it. Hmm... I'll try that, see what comes out... Weird. Both the 0165 and
the 157 ended up as a capital N with that little Spanish wave above them.
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