-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Jan 2005 20:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Anne, as a native English-speaker, you don't have to remember that > many ASCII escape-sequences. But a few, nevertheless, come in handy > like ½ (½), @ (@), £ (£) and a few more. > > As a "foreigner" it is much harder, what with æ,ø and å, all the > French accents and so on. > - From time to time, though, it is necessary to insert words from other languages, so acute, grave, circumflex, umlaut and that Spanish thingy that I can never remember the name for - the various chars that use them come in very handy. I used to refresh my memory from a printed table, according to the language I would be quoting. I wonder if your '£' is the same as alt163? For that matter, how did you get the symbol into this message, as well as the code? If I type '£' into either text editor or kword I just get the literal string.
> So, when I write some html, I just type what I want in my own > charset and when done, I use the editors "search & replace". > Voilá. - Can be viewed correctly in any browser on the planet. > Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB2bPrkFAvMr/nNX8RAlTUAJ9tzv6j+aVmcAVcTlnjBxNAkPiH1gCfUa/h iK4s7JzWWN31dLA3fqTfm6A= =eqUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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