Jean,
Dollar, percent, ampersand, hash etc along with all the upper and lower case letters and numbers are true ASCII symbols and are consistent across all computer systems.
The Pound, Yen, Euro symbols along with all the accented letters, fractions and some punctuation marks etc come into the upper ASCII set (128-255) and can vary from system to system.
As a test I'm pretty certain that you will all see the following correctly displayed:
Dollar $
Ampersand &
Hash #
Percent %
But almost certainly most of you will find some of the following displayed differently from what I've typed (unless you are using Mail on a Mac configured to British English):
Pound #
Yen Â
Euro â
Copyright Â
e acute Ã
Pi Ï
Degree Â
Half Â
As Vibeke Ervà said (and how may of you saw Vibeke's surname correctly?) it's necessary to use the standard abbreviations such as GBP or USD for email.
Brenda On 28 Oct 2004, at 09:28, Jean Nathan wrote:
Is it only the UK, then, that acknowledges the existence of other currencies? On the English (UK) keyboard we have symbols for:
Pound sterling - Â Dollar - $ Euro - ?
For computers where the operating system is set up as English (United
Kingdom) the only one that causes a problem is the Euro in emails in plain
text.
With an English UK setup, in plain text I can either send an email
containing the euro as unicode, which messes up the both the pound and the
euro, but leaves the dollar alone or I can send 'as is', when both the pound
and dollar are OK, but the euro is received as a question mark. In HTML, all
three symbols get sent and received correctly. I'm sending this 'as is', but
in plain text because Arachne strips the HTML code anyway. If your computer
isn't set up as English UK you now know how these symbols appear when you
receive them in your setup. UK setups should receive the Euro as a question
mark.
On the keyboard the pound symbol is on the upper row number 3 key. The Euro
and the dollar are both on the number 4 key, the dollar accessed with the
shift key held down and the Euro with the Ctrl and Alt keys held down.
Jean in Poole
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