Re: ASCII convention

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> It's with Windows fonts, which put different characters in the same
> codepoints as Mac fonts. Mac fonts don't have all those silly
> box-drawing characters, freeing up lots of space for useful stuff in
> 128-255.

You don't know at all what you are talking about! Your problems with
special, non-ASCII characters have nothing to do with "Windows fonts".
Some software on the Macintosh (like yours, it seems) is infected by
Belgian disease. An ill-designed transcoding ISO-8859-1 <-> MacBelgian
invented by Monsieur Pirard is responsible for this mess.
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

This all happens with ISO-Latin-1 characters - not MS Windows.
I do not use MS Windows, btw.

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