Re: CHRISTMAS TREE

On 19 Dec 1997 16:35:59 GMT, Seal do Mar (**l33...@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote in alt.ascii-art:

> > >> �  Don't know - looks like a small spaceship.
> > >Looks like a rune to me.

> My display show that when it doesn't know how to dispay the correct symbol :)

Here it is an uppercase Icelandic Thorn.

> > >> �  Degrees (as in 32� Centigrade... I wish!)
> > >No, it looks like a small troll.

> Nope ... degrees would be the symbol without the dash ... it is more like:
> 1� meaning first

.. in some Spanishish languages.. yes..
degrees is �

> > >> �  This is a double s in German - as in Stra�e (Strasse) meaning Street.
> > >The greek letter beta.

> 	Yup ... beta beta :)

Actually there is some disagreement about it, and a German sharp s
does look different from a Greek beta, but in ISO 8859-1 it is
definitely a sharp s (ISO 8859-1 contains no other Greek letters)

> > >> �  I believe that this is an accented o used in the Norwegian? language.
> > >I see the same symbol as you see, but it is not "an accented o", it is a
> > >Norwegian �. An � is not a funny looking O, it is a completely different
> > >letter with a completely different sound, it just happens to look a
> > >little bit like an O.
> > It's a slashed o.
> > (/) like that, only more o-like. ;)

> 	I also see a slashed "o", but I believe it is meant to be another greek
> letter, called fi (to be read fee) but maybe written in some other way .. phi?!
> Or is it theta?! Well ... I know it's greek :)

Again, ISO 8859-1 contains no Greek letters. � and � are Norwegian/
Danish letters.

> > >>   This symbol appears on *my* computer when I try to display a forbidden
> > >>    character, or a character that has no symbol assigned to it.
> > >This symbol appears on my computer not at all.
> > It's a square box.
> >    _
> >   |_|  only more connected. :)

> 	ctrl+O ?!

^O here.

> > >> �  This means "very much greater than" in mathematical terms, as in
> > >>    10e12�1 (ten thousand billion is very much greater than one).
> > >Yes, I see the same thing that you see.
> > Odd, I thought it went with � (its mirror image character) as European-style
> > quote marks?  At least, I forget what language I saw them used in, but it
> > was --oh never mind, all the people I argue against know everything more
> > about Europe than I do, 9/10ths of y'all are Nederlanders..
> > Anyway, I see << and >> and is taht what you see?

> 	when I was 8 or 9 I still used that those instead of "", nowadays it
> is no longer used, as a matter of fact I don't see any use for it!

French quotation marks: � comme �a �
or alternative German quotation marks: �Wichtig�
Swiss German:  �Gr�ezi miteinand!�
It's much too small to be the Mathematical sign.

> > >> �  Another accented character, but from which language I do not know.
> > >I see a Y with a dot over it.

> 	me too!

Accented Y.

> 	Ah!! ladies and gentelmen ... what does this tell us? :)
> 	We are seeing this characters diferrent from system to system ...
> and that means they are not standard ASCII characters ... and that means we
> should not use them for decorating trees!! (or anyother thing in here :)))

No.. there is a standard.. see http://www.unicode.org/ :)

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tobias benjamin koehler                 tk...@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de
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