Re: CHRISTMAS TREE

Mark Anderson wrote:
> (Veronica Karlsson) wrote:
> > David Day wrote:
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> �  Don't know - looks like a small spaceship.
> 

Looks like a rune to me.

> �  Degrees (as in 32� Centigrade... I wish!)
> 

No, it looks like a small troll.

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

The greek letter beta.

> �  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.

>   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.

> �  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.

> �  Another accented character, but from which language I do not know.
> 

I see a Y with a dot over it.

> I hope this is of some assistance to you, but why you should want to know
> I have no idea.
> 

I have no idea either. All I know is that you shouldn't use those
characters to make ascii art! One reason is that different people will
see different things (if they see anything at all) when someobody uses
such characters. This depends on what kind of computer you have, what
program you use, what country you live in and if the wind comes from the
north.

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