Re: ASCII convention

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> 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>.

Ok, I'll bite: ?xyz* (that was S-O-- and S-O-g)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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