cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

[Dennis R. Preston]

Well, I see all these goodies correctly, but I too am using a Mac, not some
Toy-R-Us computer.

dInIs

>>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


Dennis R. Preston
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