From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: [OT] Mailer compatibility
Date:	Mon, 18 May 1998 11:39:47 +0100

Grahamdrew said on 22:09/17 May 98...

> > That's usually the result of different operating systems as well -- th=
ey
> > 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 el=
se in
> > MS DOS-based mailers, where the nuyen sign is character 157 (¥).

Whoa, this is old...! :)

> 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.

In Windows, a four-digit character number starting with a 0 indicates a
TrueType character set, while a 3-digit number is ANSI.

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