Re: Apostrophes and foreign systems

Dan Larkin (dla...@moran.Mines.EDU) posted --

> > Well there is your problem! Your using the wrong kind of computer!
> > If you were using a Mac you'd not be having this problem!!! MAC is
> > global!!!
>
> > (option n - then type n - voila! you get � !!!!)
>
> I hope that people without macs saw this... haha.
> says: '(option n - then type n - voila! you get q !!!!)'  HAHA!

Take it from someone who has an Apple II, a Mac, an MS-DOS machine, and a
shell account on a Unix machine. On the Mac, Option+n followed by n sends
the value 150 to the display system, causing a lowercase n with tilde to
appear on the screen. The message you quoted was sent with software that
converted the 150 to the value 241, which is the value that ISO 8859-1,
the most widely used eight-bit text encoding method on the Internet, uses
for a lowercase n with tilde. And that's what I see right now. On my DOS
machine. Connected to a Unix machine.

The problem in your case is that your machine, or some machine somewhere
between yours and that of the sender, is not "eight bit clean." It zeroed
out the high bit of the transmitted byte, reducing the value expressed by
that byte by exactly 128. 241 minus 128 is 113.

Check an ASCII chart to see what character appears when a byte with the
value 113 is sent to the screen.

Dan Strychalski
dsk...@cameonet.cameo.com.tw

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