Re: subjective feelings about actions?

From: Paul Blay (ranma_at_saotome.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:31:29 +0100

<jim_breen@idontreadhotmail.com> wrote ...
>
> I have now changed it to a "&#092;". Originally it was a _\_, and that
> shouldn't have upset anything on a EUC-JP-encoded page.

On this occasion I thought it was worth trying unicode - but it didn't make any useful
difference. [backslash] appears to be extremely transient no matter where it comes
from (including when I put &#092; in the source of a HTML format post). For that matter
every time Jim has typed what I assume to be [backslash] I see [half-width-yen].

Where I _did_ have a [backslash] displayed copying it somewhere else resulted in
another [half-width-yen]. I'd like to get hold of whoever thought 'overlaying' the yen
symbol onto the backslash was a good idea and say a few things >_<

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