The symbol test

5 posts · Feb 13 1998 to Feb 13 1998

From: Tony Christney <tchristney@t...>

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:06:18 -0800

Subject: The symbol test

Well, it seems as though everyone can see £ as the pound sign except for one
person on a VAX system. It all seems incredibly clear now! "=A3" is caused by
nothing more than an older OS not knowing what to do with the international
characters.

The reason that I tried this is because I remembered Jon's original post
having the symbol correct, then in the reply it was messed up. So Jon, most of
see the "£" properly.

Thanks to all who answered. TTYL

From: Indy Kochte <kochte@s...>

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:26:23 -0500 (EST)

Subject: Re: The symbol test

> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3

Well, if '=A3' translates into a pound sign (#), what does '=3D' translate
into?

Mk

From: Adrian Bruce <adrian@i...>

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 12:28:56 +0900 (JST)

Subject: Re: The symbol test

In article <l03020900b108f6661967@[142.104.17.15]>
> acc@uvic.ca writes:

> Well, it seems as though everyone can see =A3 as the pound sign

On this Telnet Window to a Sun, that is "equals A 3", and In Netscape with the
default AUTO Japanese font, it isn't a pound sign
either. To me '\' is the YEN mark, a big Y with 2 small strokes through
it, but I bet you all just see it as a backslash!

From: John Leary <john_t_leary@y...>

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:49:48 -0800

Subject: Re: The symbol test

> Glasses...secret identity...seemed like a good idea at the time. wrote:
translate
> into?

Eyestrain!

Bye for now,

From: Tony Christney <tchristney@t...>

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:34:28 -0800

Subject: Re: The symbol test

> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
translate
> into?

An equals sign! That is very wierd! Replacing an equals with a '=3D'! I'll
change my.sig. That must be very annoying!

> Mk