Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 Aug 2001.
What Character is it?
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· 18 messages · 22 Aug 2001 - 24 Aug 2001
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How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and
pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is
� ?
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:51:31 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: >������������������� >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is >� ? alt + 0164 start-programs-accessories-system tools-character map on a windows system anyway..... -- .-. .-. (_ '. .-',%%%%%,'-. .' _) (__.'\ ~'. %^.^% .'~ /'.__) / @(O)\ '._)'(_.' /(O)@ \ | | (_) {_\'.'/_} (_) | | _\__\__= _ /(_).(_)\ _ =__/ /_ ( / \ ) ( ) // ) : ( \\ ( ) ( / \ ) ||| |||(.O')_____________________________('O.)||| ||| c||___|c| (_)PopUps Scripts(_) |c|___||c ||(_(_|||_| | #ASCII_Art | |_|||_)_)|| ((|_|_|())) | irc.bluedwarf.net | ((()|_|_|)) |)) * |_| |_| * ((| |||_)\( )_____________________________( )/(_||| (_(____)\_/ MJP \_/(____)_)
In article <TDIg7.142435$Jg....@typhoon.kc.rr.com>, "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: >������������������� >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is >� ? This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz Happl
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> enlightened us with: > In article <TDIg7.142435$Jg....@typhoon.kc.rr.com>, > "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: > > >������������������� > >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and > >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is > >� ? > > This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. > > Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz > Happl On my screen, this is showing up as \_/ |_| / \ Whereas EURO would be _ / ` (=== \_, Although more rounded. [Font is lucidia console] Stuart (in the UK, which doesn't have the Euro, and didn't think Switzerland had either...) -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:51:31 GMT, Nehmo Sergheyev <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: > ������������������� > How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and > pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is > � ? In Latin-1 it's 164 dec, a4 hex, but it depends entirely on your character encoding. That's why ascii-art only includes characters 32-126, because they work in every encoding. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
In article <3b8...@news.ntlworld.com>, stu...@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) wrote: >> >������������������� >> >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and >> >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is >> >� ? >> This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. >On my screen, this is showing up as > \_/ > |_| > / \ >Whereas EURO would be > _ > / ` >(=== > \_, That's the normal problem between platform (windows, macintosh, linux, ...) and fonts. >Stuart (in the UK, which doesn't have the Euro, and didn't think Switzerland had >either...) That's true. But we will accept Euro as we do US$, DEM and others. Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz Happl
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:04:59 -0400, anonyme <ano...@meow.org> wrote:
> What is the -- sideways? alt + what? | sideways like that. But --.
� ? I make it 166 dec, a6 hex. Again, non-ASCII so don't use it in ascii-art.
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Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
Stuart Moore: Do you expect me to reply? Bateau: No Mr Stuart Moore, I expect you to die! >On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> >enlightened us with: > >> In article <TDIg7.142435$Jg....@typhoon.kc.rr.com>, >> "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: >> >> >������������������� >> >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and >> >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is >> >� ? >> >> This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. >> >> Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz >> Happl > >On my screen, this is showing up as > > \_/ > |_| > / \ I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that thing above> etc. -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ *BANG* | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ `~' \_; |ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net SITE:www.flashback-aw.net
In article<gfi...@4ax.com>, anonyme <ano...@meow.org> writes: >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >|a|n|o|n|y|m|e| >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > >mhm 31x11 >meow > > > , > ,-. _,---._ __ / \ > / ) .-' `./ / \ > ( ( ,' `/ /| > \ `-" \'\ / | > `. , \ \ / | > /`. ,'-`----Y | > ( ; | ' > | ,-. ,-' | / > | | ( | hjw | / > ) | \ `.___________|/ > `--' `--' That's clever; I haven't seen that piece by Hayley before. __ __ -- Regards, \\'___//' the MAD COW does Prozac: XEMoo.Moo.Moo .;'\_/ \`'\_/__ (cow by P.Kistner <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> \___ (x)\ /(x)} <upg...@sunyit.edu>) _______________________________/ :--' ____________________________ http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/ \_ `__\ --[I'm going for slaughter soon,] \___(o'o) [but, y'know, I can't complain] :--:-+
In article <qBaEO6sgknGCu5lynIo1R648H=L...@4ax.com>, Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote: >>> >������������������� [...] >I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that >thing above> etc. And I got the (c) (copyright symbol), (= (Euro symbol), (c), (=, ... That's the normal font problem between macintosh and windows. Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz Happl
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:00:41 +0200 Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> wrote: > In article <qBaEO6sgknGCu5lynIo1R648H=L...@4ax.com>, > Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote: > > >>> >������������������� > [...] > >I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that > >thing above> etc. > > And I got the (c) (copyright symbol), (= (Euro symbol), (c), (=, ... > > That's the normal font problem between macintosh and windows. > > Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz > Happl Well, I use Linux but I don't see my new currency's symbol either. But I have to complain that I don't have any fonts with it yet. But how can these differences happen since all messages using the euro symbol should be encoded in ISO-8859-15 or what am I missing? -- ,----------------------------. ___________________ /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Christian Mertes aka mudd1 | ... |c_m...@bigfoot.de| \ / CAMPAIGN `---------------------------(_ ( ��) |___________________| X AGAINST HTML ----------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------| |--------- / \IN MAIL AND NEWS
In article <200...@t-online.de>, Christian Mertes <c_m...@t-online.de> wrote: >> > >������������������� >> >I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that >> >thing above> etc. >> And I got the (c) (copyright symbol), (= (Euro symbol), (c), (=, ... >> That's the normal font problem between macintosh and windows. >Well, I use Linux but I don't see my new currency's symbol either. But I have >to complain that I don't have any fonts with it yet. But how can these >differences happen since all messages using the euro symbol should be encoded in >ISO-8859-15 or what am I missing? In usenet ISO-8859-1 is normaly used and this font the Euro symbol is not included. <language=german> Kommt hinzu, dass verschiedene Schriften mit dem Euro-Symbol erg�nzt wurden. Also ist es m�glich, dass Arial auf Windows 95 kein Euro-Symbol hat und Arial auf Windows 2000 oder ME schon. </> Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz Happl
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:32:27 +0200 Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> wrote: > In article <200...@t-online.de>, > Christian Mertes <c_m...@t-online.de> wrote: > > >> > >������������������� > >> >I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that > >> >thing above> etc. > >> And I got the (c) (copyright symbol), (= (Euro symbol), (c), (=, ... > >> That's the normal font problem between macintosh and windows. > >Well, I use Linux but I don't see my new currency's symbol either. But I have > >to complain that I don't have any fonts with it yet. But how can these > >differences happen since all messages using the euro symbol should be encoded in > >ISO-8859-15 or what am I missing? > > In usenet ISO-8859-1 is normaly used and this font the Euro symbol > is not included. Isses nich m�glich im Header den benutzten Zeichensatz festzulegen? Mit Content-type z.B. oder geht das nur bei Multipart Messages (nein, ich mag sie auch nich). > <language=german> > Kommt hinzu, dass verschiedene Schriften mit dem Euro-Symbol > erg�nzt wurden. Also ist es m�glich, dass Arial auf Windows 95 > kein Euro-Symbol hat und Arial auf Windows 2000 oder ME schon. > </> Naja, die Schriftarten d�rften ja austauschbar sein und ich wei�, dass es Euroversionen von den M$-Standardschriftarten zum Download bereitstehen, aber is klar, viele Schriftarten werden den Euro einfach nich drin haben, so wie jetz die Umlaute (vielleicht noch nen bisschen versch�rfter) da war das sch�ne ASCII-kompatible "DM" irgendwie sicherer... naja. > Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz > Happl Gr��e zur�ck in die Schweiz, -- ,----------------------------. ___________________ /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Christian Mertes aka mudd1 | ... |c_m...@bigfoot.de| \ / CAMPAIGN `---------------------------(_ ( ��) |___________________| X AGAINST HTML ----------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------| |--------- / \IN MAIL AND NEWS
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:05:20 +0200 Christian Mertes <c_m...@t-online.de> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:32:27 +0200 > Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> wrote: > > > In article <200...@t-online.de>, > > Christian Mertes <c_m...@t-online.de> wrote: > > > > >> > >������������������� > > >> >I get <copyright symbol> <that thing above> <copyright symbol> <that > > >> >thing above> etc. > > >> And I got the (c) (copyright symbol), (= (Euro symbol), (c), (=, ... > > >> That's the normal font problem between macintosh and windows. > > >Well, I use Linux but I don't see my new currency's symbol either. But I have > > >to complain that I don't have any fonts with it yet. But how can these > > >differences happen since all messages using the euro symbol should be encoded > in > > >ISO-8859-15 or what am I missing? > > > > In usenet ISO-8859-1 is normaly used and this font the Euro symbol > > is not included. > > Isses nich m�glich im Header den benutzten Zeichensatz festzulegen? Mit > Content-type z.B. oder geht das nur bei Multipart Messages (nein, ich mag sie > auch nich). > > > <language=german> > > Kommt hinzu, dass verschiedene Schriften mit dem Euro-Symbol > > erg�nzt wurden. Also ist es m�glich, dass Arial auf Windows 95 > > kein Euro-Symbol hat und Arial auf Windows 2000 oder ME schon. > > </> > > Naja, die Schriftarten d�rften ja austauschbar sein und ich wei�, dass es > Euroversionen von den M$-Standardschriftarten zum Download bereitstehen, aber is > klar, viele Schriftarten werden den Euro einfach nich drin haben, so wie jetz > die Umlaute (vielleicht noch nen bisschen versch�rfter) da war das sch�ne > ASCII-kompatible "DM" irgendwie sicherer... naja. > Sorry folks, should have been a reply to poster, don't know why it wasn't one... Have to test this with my own posts in alt.test perhaps it's a bug in Sylpheed or it's my own stupidy.... -- ,----------------------------. ___________________ /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Christian Mertes aka mudd1 | ... |c_m...@bigfoot.de| \ / CAMPAIGN `---------------------------(_ ( ��) |___________________| X AGAINST HTML ----------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo-------| |--------- / \IN MAIL AND NEWS
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:51:31 GMT, "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
> what is � ?
It's called the "international currency symbol" (whatever that means).
Unicode calls it simply CURRENCY SIGN.
Cheers,
Philip
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> wrote: > In article <TDIg7.142435$Jg....@typhoon.kc.rr.com>, > "Nehmo Sergheyev" <neh...@my-deja.com> wrote: > > >������������������� > >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and > >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is > >� ? > > This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. Not really. If the poster had advertised a charset of iso-8859-15 (aka latin-9), then it would have been a Euro. But since he didn't say what charset he was posting, it's anyone's guess. My Windows displayed it in its default character set (codepage 1252), which is similar to iso-8859-1 -- and there's it's just the "currency symbol". Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li> That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin
<hap...@mail.com> wrote:
> This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe.
Hm, see if this works. No, it doesn't -- I'll send it as utf-8 instead
This is the currency symbol ¤
and this is an Euro €
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:05:20 +0200, Christian Mertes <c_m...@t-online.de> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:32:27 +0200 > Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin <hap...@mail.com> wrote: > > > In usenet ISO-8859-1 is normaly used and this font the Euro symbol > > is not included. Nit: iso-8859-1 is a charset, not a font. You can have multiple fonts implementing this charset. (And one font can implement multiple charsets -- for example, iso-8859-1 *and* iso-8859-15 *and* possibly others -- if it contains more than 256 characters. For example, the fonts downloadable from Microsoft's web page have more than 256 characters. > Isses nich m�glich im Header den benutzten Zeichensatz festzulegen? Doch, ist es wohl. > Mit Content-type z.B. genau > oder geht das nur bei Multipart Messages (nein, ich mag sie > auch nich). > > > <language=german> > > Kommt hinzu, dass verschiedene Schriften mit dem Euro-Symbol > > erg�nzt wurden. Also ist es m�glich, dass Arial auf Windows 95 > > kein Euro-Symbol hat und Arial auf Windows 2000 oder ME schon. > > </> Kann man auf 95 aber nachr�sten; das hatte ich damals gemacht. Dann taucht's aber unter iso-8859-1 trotzdem nicht auf (aber unter iso-8859-15, wenn das Betriebssystem und/oder das Anwendungsprogramm wei�, was das ist). Und windows-codepage 1252 muss auch (unter Win95) nachger�stet werden, damit es den Euro erkennt. > Naja, die Schriftarten d�rften ja austauschbar sein und ich wei�, dass es > Euroversionen von den M$-Standardschriftarten zum Download bereitstehen, aber is > klar, viele Schriftarten werden den Euro einfach nich drin haben, so wie jetz > die Umlaute (vielleicht noch nen bisschen versch�rfter) da war das sch�ne > ASCII-kompatible "DM" irgendwie sicherer... naja. Kannst ja "EUR" schreiben. > > Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz > > Happl > > Gr��e zur�ck in die Schweiz, Und von mir. Gru�, Philip -- Philip Newton <nos...@gmx.li> That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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