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Re: Character Test - Degree Symbol
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 Jun 05, 22:58 -0400
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2008 Jun 05, 22:58 -0400
Those special characters come through in netscape mail reader.
gl
Spence Leech wrote:
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gl
Spence Leech wrote:
Frank, I'm new here and tried to access Paul's message, no luck. How do I get specific messages? thanks....Spence
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:54 AM, <frankreed@historicalatlas.net> wrote:
Here's a simple solution. If you have a small number of special characters
you want to keep handy, create a text document with Notepad (or equivalent)
and call it, let's say, "symbols.txt". Then go to email messages or other
documents that have the character you want, copy from there, and paste into
symbols.txt. Then when you're composing a message later, you can grab the
character without having to mess with keyboard shortcuts. That's what I do.
Ta-da: "º".
For the record, I don't see that it does any harm to write "d" or "deg". I
wouldn't fault anyone for doing so.
If you want a real test of your email reader's handling of special
characters, have a look at message 5267 from Paul Hirose (a very interesting
message, btw). Do you see lambdas, phis, xi, eta, and zeta in the equations
towards the end? Mine renders them all as one filler character. My archive
doesn't handle them correctly (maybe next month it will), but the Google
archive does display them correctly.
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