cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: Alice Faber <faber at POP.HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: cacha?a and OFF TOPIC


>>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.


I'm using NT4(ws) and Outlook Express (Explorer) v4.whatever and the
extended characters above came through fine. That must mean they're
nonstandard <g>.

bkd