Re: ASCII convention

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:53:38 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>If, however, you refer to typography where special fonts (containing
>angle brackets) are not available, and if you're clever enough to use a
>Mac, the Single Guillemets provide a very reasonable substitute (see my
>chapter in the Blackwell *Handbook of Linguistics*. Unfortunately, they
>turn into Icelandic in Windows: instead of <xyz> write Ðxyzð.

The problem is not with Windows, it's with your browser
("Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC)"), which pretends to be
posting in iso-8859-1, while in fact it's using something
which is similar to, but not quite mac roman.

Try <em dash> xyz <double acute accent>.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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