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From: Grahamdrew <grahamdrew@*********.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Mailer compatibility
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:09:14 -0400
> That's usually the result of different operating systems as well -- they
> use different character sets above #127. All TrueType fonts use a
> standarized sequence of characters, but MS DOS and Macs use different
> ones (also from each other), for example. So using character 0165 (the
> nuyen sign, ¥) in my Windows mailer probably results in something else in
> MS DOS-based mailers, where the nuyen sign is character 157 (¥).


I belive they are the same thing, but one is in hex and one is in
decimal or something, and they are individuated by the number of digits
(3 vs. 4) Notice 0157 yields entirely diffrent results.
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