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--- frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote:

> 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".

Heh... we're doing the same thing, except I call mine a "Character
Palette"...  ;-)

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GregR


 
> 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 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 


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