Re: ASCII convention

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:14:18 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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)

Bizarre. That was sent as 97 (illegal; em dash in Windows
"Latin-1" / CP 1252) and 2A (plain asterisk).

What happens if I send the Windows single guillemets ?xyz?,
while lying that it's iso-8859-1?

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