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In article <717...@hugbear.NL.net>, flu...@quadrant.xs4all.nl*no_spam* (Hayley Jane Wakenshaw) writes:
|> joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> writes:
[ munch ]
|> >-On my UK keyboard, its the very top left key also with ` and | on it. I 
|> >-just press SHIFT to get �
|> >
|> >Well I don't know what nationality my keybord is but
|> >there is no such character on it.
|> >It doesn't exist on my "proper-ascii-character" list eather.
|> >What it is? To be honest it's a mistery to me.
|> 
|> It's a great character. :) Used it alot for smilies on IRC when I was at
|> college. I was pretty disappointed when I found out that it wasn't a
|> 'ficial ascii character. I can't get it on this puter (without pressing
|> lots of buttins anyway, coz it's an amiga) and I have no idea what it
|> means. Does ANYBODY know what it's s'posed to stand for?! :)

Yeah, I do: it's the negation symbol in formal logic. (Not that I know a
lot about that but I know the symbol :-)

(Btw, I had to wrap your message manually to see what I was responding
to in the message compose window.)

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spa...@mymail.com wrote in article <340...@nntp.netcom.ca>...
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 22:30:57 +0200, joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl>
wrote:
> 
> >Hhhaaaaa I asked Adian the same thing and that's what
> >his answer was:
> >
> >-On my UK keyboard, its the very top left key also with ` and | on it. I

> >-just press SHIFT to get �
> >
> >It doesn't exist on my "proper-ascii-character" list eather.
> >What it is? To be honest it's a mistery to me.
> 
> In the official 255 character WIPEOS Character set (Windows and IBM PC
> extraneous ordinal system series), it is character no. 188, but it's not
> guaranteed. In MS Windows, you get it in _most_ fonts by Alt + 0188 on
the
> keypad.
> 
> Pronunciation, for the acro-inimical among you is as in "whip yo 's'",
and is
> the only computer acronym that is not tolerated on the "children's
channel" as
> there are those who feel that whipping is not acceptable treatment for
the
> letter 's' (for reasons I cannot pretend to understand).
> 
> Alan
> 
> My real address is alanp @ netcom.ca (without spaces)
> but I'm sick of email spam.
> 

I use Topaz New font and it looks like an exclamation mark for me. My
favorite hex 
editor (MS Developer) says its code is 172 (0xAC).


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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:17:08 GMT, "Valentin VALCIU"
<axi...@skylab.math.unibuc.roo> wrote:

>spa...@mymail.com wrote in article <340...@nntp.netcom.ca>...
>
>> extraneous ordinal system series), it is character no. 188, but it's not
>> guaranteed. In MS Windows, you get it in _most_ fonts by Alt + 0188 on
>the
>> keypad.
>> 
>
>I use Topaz New font and it looks like an exclamation mark for me. My
>favorite hex editor (MS Developer) says its code is 172 (0xAC).

And your favourite hex editor is correct. I was using the Windows character map
program, and it uses Alt + 0188 in almost every font that contains the
character at all. The only exception I could find was the 'Terminal' font which
showed it as Alt + 0172.

Using a DOS hex editor to look at it, it is indeed 0xAC. I guess Gates & Co.
believe that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds", and feel
character mapping consistently is foolish. Go figure.

See, now if I could draw, I would have here, a picture of a hobgoblin, a small
mind, Bill Gates, and the fool from Waite & Smith's Rider Tarot Deck to
illustrate the point. Not that I'm hinting or anything like that, you
understand.

Alan

My real address is alanp @ netcom.ca (without spaces)
but I'm sick of email spam.

Eric wrote:

> joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> >Well I don't know what nationality my keybord is but
> >there is no such character on it.
>
> If you don't have an 'ij' (combined into one character) on your
> keyboard,
> it's probably American, like most Dutch keyboards ;-)
>
> >It doesn't exist on my "proper-ascii-character" list eather.
> >What it is? To be honest it's a mistery to me.
>
> Looks like some sort of 'extended' ASCII set character to me...
>
> Eric
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 Eric wrote:

> joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> >Well I don't know what nationality my keybord is but
> >there is no such character on it.
>
> If you don't have an 'ij' (combined into one character) on your
> keyboard,
> it's probably American, like most Dutch keyboards ;-)
>
> >It doesn't exist on my "proper-ascii-character" list eather.
> >What it is? To be honest it's a mistery to me.
>
> Looks like some sort of 'extended' ASCII set character to me...
>
> Eric
>


Well it's not Dutch and I'm not sure it's American either.
I brought the damn computer from France (so maybe it's French then).
Hhhhum... Elementary my dear Watson. :D

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