cacha?a and OFF TOPIC

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Both the c-cedilla and the British pound symbol came through correctly in my
e-mail.  I must say I'm very surprised!  I have a PC and use Microsoft
Outlook 98.

Victoria

Victoria Neufeldt
Merriam-Webster, Inc. P.O. Box 281
Springfield, MA 01102
Tel: 413-734-3134  ext 124
Fax: 413-827-7262

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Alice Faber
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:10 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: cacha?a and OFF TOPIC
>
>
> >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
>