Re: CHRISTMAS TREE

> >> �  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 :)

> >> �  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

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

	Yup ... beta 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.
> 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 :)

> >>   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 ?!

> >> �  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!

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

	me too!


	And now ... why am  I doing a follow up on this ... :-\\\

	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 :)))

	merry christmas



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