The currency symbols that are quoted from the original message have now become pairs of hooks '¬' and a-circumflexes 'â', so I suspect it's now been converted to UTF8 at some point, but it still doesn't have any headers to indicate that.
I think the problem originally arose because Macs (along with anything else using character sets derived from Latin1) used 0xA4 as the universal currency symbol '¤', then along came the euro '?' and Apple squeezed it in as 0xA4 instead.
Andy Burns gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Fine in Tim's post, broken in yours.
Alt + 128 (on numeric pad) also works. ¤
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is not the Euro symbol, ? is the Euro symbol.
That's what I typed. Option-222222222222222222222
gives me
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Lots of Euro symbols.
Tim Streater gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
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Yep, they work here.
As did the post that chunkyoldcortina replied to. Until he replied to it, at which point, it became
...until you replied to it, at which point it became...
Ah, the joys of character sets...
Well they don't here any more in this reply :-)
Yes. I'm trying to get NewsWatcher to do it right. I sent a post to alt.test with a bundle of special chars in it, came back to me as Chinese (sic). But then I received a mail from somewhere with my post (as I hadn't put 'ignore' in the subject line) and in the mail, all the special chars were there correctly. I'll look into it some more.
Try Control + Alt + 2
Tim Streater wrote on Jun 24, 2010:
I think that's only for Macs
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ctrl-alt-4 ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ altgr-4
Windows 7.
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