Re: Screwpull knockoffs? or legitimate copies?

I'l admit that it has been mentioned before but relying on the accurate transmission of currency symbols is unwise especially in a ng with international readership and many different browsers. In general, the best thing to do is to use the standard three letter codes such as GBP, EUR, JPY, USD etc. I know the dollar sign, $, usually transmits properly but it is best to be consistent, IMHO. In any case there is more than one flavor of dollar and, by the time that has specified, you will probably have used at least three characters. Other codes than the ones I gave can readily be found on exchange rate sites such as:

James, it surprised me that the Euro symbol was not transmitted. It _is_ part and parcel of the international keyboard set up. When the Euro became 'standard' I changed over my keyboard.

Dave

Salut/Hi DH,

le/on Sun, 6 Jul 2003 03:19:00 +0200, tu disais/you said:-

Standard? I had an Australian friend ask me whether he should bring Francs Lire, Euro or dollar travellers cheques. So it's not surprising that some US companies don't seem to take the whole business of non American characters seriously. There are 400 (:-))) different systems of encoding, very few applications decode them correctly EVEN whe set up right. It's a good example of why thje present neasr monopoly of the computer market is bad.

Dave, The problem is almost certainly one of Outlook Express's many wonderful "features." The problem arises when the character set used to display characters on your computer is different than the default character set used by OE to display Usenet posts. Having said that, however, I cannot find a character set that does display those symbols in your post as Euro symbols. Hmm... Let's see if my attempt works any better than yours: €

How's that look to you?

Mark Lipton

in article snipped-for-privacy@purdue.edu, Mark Lipton at snipped-for-privacy@purdue.edu wrote on 7/6/03 9:21 PM:

Hey, DH........ if this thread ever gets back to the subject of the design and patent of the lever model screwpull....... I'd be interested in hearing more on that subject. Not that keyboard character sets aren't fascinating in their own right, of course. ;o)

fascinating

I'll post after Screwpull BeNeLux calls back.