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Re: Character Test - Degree Symbol
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2008 Jun 05, 11:54 -0400
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2008 Jun 05, 11:54 -0400
Here's a simple solution. If you have a small number of special characters you want to keep handy, create a text document with Notepad (or equivalent) and call it, let's say, "symbols.txt". Then go to email messages or other documents that have the character you want, copy from there, and paste into symbols.txt. Then when you're composing a message later, you can grab the character without having to mess with keyboard shortcuts. That's what I do. Ta-da: "�". For the record, I don't see that it does any harm to write "d" or "deg". I wouldn't fault anyone for doing so. If you want a real test of your email reader's handling of special characters, have a look at message 5267 from Paul Hirose (a very interesting message, btw). Do you see lambdas, phis, xi, eta, and zeta in the equations towards the end? Mine renders them all as one filler character. My archive doesn't handle them correctly (maybe next month it will), but the Google archive does display them correctly. -FER --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
