Re: ASCII convention

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC)

You have no right to complain when you use such an obsolete piece
of software.

> 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.

They don't "turn into Icelandic in Windows". Rather your software has
been infected by Belgian disease.
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html

¹ superscript 1 ¼ fraction 1/4 Ð D stroke ð d stroke
² superscript 2 ½ fraction 1/2 Þ Thorn þ thorn
³ superscript 3 ¾ fraction 3/4 Ý Y acute ý y acute
× multiply sign ¦ broken bar

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