From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e136d2bb18e6fb60 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-28 10:18:24 PST Message-ID: <3DE65C47.70308@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Character Sets (plain text police report) References: <3DE65BB7.5010505@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1038507079 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:19 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:11:19 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31297 Date: 2002-11-28T13:11:19-05:00 List-Id: 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; -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg