Re: Character Sets (plain text police report)

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

ARRRG!!!

It seems that Netscape 7 replies to HTML in HTML!  Grrr!  That
means this message will likely be HTML as well...

Now _I_ must apologize! ;-)

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> Hmmm... I guess since Robert Dewar is avoiding this group these
> days, we also lost our "plain text" police force ;-)
> 
> In case you were not aware of it, you are posting HTML to this
> news group. This is generally discouraged so that others who
> are not using HTML capable news readers, are still able to make
> sense of your posting.
> 
> Robert C. Leif wrote:
> 
>> Christoph Grein responded to my inquiry by stating that,
>> " Latin_9.Euro_Sign is a name for a character. The same character in 
>> Latin_1 has a different name, it is the Currency_Sign."
>> "So why do you expect this character not to be in the set only because 
>> you use a different name for it?"
>> The Euro_Sign and the Currency_Sign have a different representation 
>> according to The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup 
>> http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> GNAT Latin_9 (ISO-8859-15)includes the following:
>>    -- Summary of Changes from Latin-1 => Latin-9 --
>>    ------------------------------------------------
> 
> ....
> 
>> end Char_Sets_Test;

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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