symbol sets

[Rankin, Robert L]

>In my experience, virtually ANY kind of special character -- even
ordinary ones like 'a-acute accent' -- can and probably will get mangled by
being passed through email, especially if it passes through some really
different types of servers or if it crosses international boundaries. So
really,it works best not to use any special characters in a venue like this
and to limit ourselves to ugly-but-safe things like 's^', 'u"' and 'e`'.

I'm afraid Dave's right.  We've been thru this before.  Those with Windows
machines can probaby set their "font" for John's Siouan Doulos and retrieve
a fairly large number of the special symbols.  But those fonts seem to be a
problem for at least some Macs and those who read their email in DOS-based
systems like Pine are out of luck.  It takes a better man than me to predict
how Unix would respond (tho' I think our old Pine system here ran under
Unix).  I'd love to get everyone on the same page so we could use all of our
Siouanist symbols, but I'm not holding my breath.  Bob