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    Re: Character Test - Degree Symbol
    From: Gary LaPook
    Date: 2008 Jun 05, 22:58 -0400
    Those special characters come through in netscape mail reader.

    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.

     -FER







    --
    Spence Leech, Jr.
    Cape Cod Associates, Inc.
    103 Murphys Drive
    Groton, CT 06340
    860.514.6138



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