WARNING: this reply may contain more than you really wanted to know. ;-) Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Todd Walton wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, James G. Sack (jim) >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨(c)ª«¬(R)¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ >>> >>> >> >> upside-down exclamation >> c with a line through it >> > > That's the sign for cent (a penny), isn't it? > > That's my 2¢. > >> british pound >> universal currency >> yen >> two pipes stacked vertically >> legal symbol for section >> quote >> copyright >> > > A c in parentheses, I don't see why that needs special characters when > ASCII will do the same.
The original was sent as Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit It looks like Todd's email client (gmail?) re-sent it as Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable and in the process, the copyright and registered symbols got translated to three-character ascii equivalents (for reasons unknown to me). > > I like the © and ® alternatives to the above list. But it always takes > too long to find all the characters I want very infrequently, so I > collected them all into a file for easy pickings. I don't even use all > of them, but want to have them available: > ¡¿ÁÉÍÑÓÚáéíñóú > ⁈‽⁉ √∛∜ ␛␍␊␡␠␈␇ > ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁺⁻⁼⁽⁾₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉₊₋₌₍₎ ±∞ ≤≥≪≫≊⋜⋝ ¼½¾ ⅓⅔ ⅕⅖⅗⅘ ⅙⅚ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ♩♪♫♬♭♮♯ > ①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⑩ ❶❷❸❹❺❻❼❽❾❿ ➀➁➂➃➄➅➆➇➈➉ ➊➋➌➍➎➏➐➑➒➓ > ©®℗™℻ ℄ ℉℃° ℔ № > •‣†‡ ▶▷▸▹►▻ ◉○ ☐☑☒ ☜☝☞☟☚☛ ✍✎✏✐ ✓✔✗✘ ✡✦✧✩✪✭✯✴✵ ❢❣❤❥❦❧ ➢➣➥➦➧➨➛➳➴➵➶➷➸➹ ✁✂✃✄ > ℅ ⊕⊖⊗⊘⊛ ⌨ ☠☢☣♲ ☪☭☯ ☮✌⚐ ☹♨☺☻ ☼♀♂ ♡♢♥♦ ♿ ⚕⚖⚗⚛⚠⚡ ✇ > > Even though this selection is much smaller than the Character Map > program, I tried to do some logical groupings to make it easier to find > things within this much smaller group. I don't think to use them > sometimes when I could. Just now, I see that I have radio buttons and > checkboxes that I had forgotten were in there. I could have used those > just a few days ago in another email. :( > > I think I went thru the entire Character Map program listing of [Unicode] > characters and snatched every one that looked like it might be of > interest to me. I put them all in a file. I made a tiny script to call > the file. Then I placed an icon on my launch bar (where it would always > be visible) to call the script. I have it pop up in a terminal window, > and the script keeps it open for 60 seconds. I just cut and paste. > >> less-than less-than >> >> ...and so on. Looks like it all came through correctly here. > > P.S. I didn't receive this email as UTF-8, but at least one of the > characters in my response is tripping tBird to prompt me to send in > UTF-8 (which I will). > That's because most of the characters from your favs-list cannot be reperesented in any (single one) of the 8-bit encodings such as latin1 (ISO8859-1) or any of the IBM/DOS/Windows code-pages. You need a Unicode-capable encoding, such as utf8 (or utf16..). Your tbird noticed that you pasted in some characters that were not valid latin1 and asked if it was ok to re-encode the output as utf8. If you read the dialog carefully, it points out that if you say no, then tbird will substitute question marks for characters which cannot be represented in the outgoing encoding. Most of the time. Sometimes, utf8 will look like a sequence of valid latin1. For example: U+0121 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH DOT ABOVE has the utf8 encoding 0xC4 0xA1 which looks like a pair of valid iso8859 chars LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK so it appears tbird is not always as smart as it might be.. ..as is the case for all of us, eh? :-( Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
