cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

[Alice Faber]

>Grant Barrett wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 7, 2000, Kathleen Miller <millerk at NYTIMES.COM> wrote:
>> >Sorry - it came out fine on my end.
>> >Cacha (c cedilla) a
>> >and
>> >caipir (i acute) ssima
>>
>> Mark, you gotta get your tech people to get you off Lotus Notes. Even
>>the free email
>> programs usually handle special characters well. Or see if you can
>>adjust the
>> default character reading and sending to something other than US-ASCII.
>>
>
>Well, the characters don't come out fine on Netscape Messenger on my Unix box
>running in a French locale.  My suspicion is that the characters are
>either not
>proper ISO-8859-1 (aka extended ASCII or ANSI) or are mangled by the list
>mailer. I am curious to know if all of the folks who see these characters
>correctly are using Macs - ?

Well, I'm using a Mac, and I can type the ç (c-cedilla) correctly, but once
they get filtered through a computer that can't deal with such symbols,
they revert to question marks.

We've been going through this discussion on another mailing list I'm on,
but about £ (British pound symbol); it's the same problem, of course. Both
symbols look fine as I type them. It'll be interesting to see how they get
trashed and where.

Alice Faber