Currencies and Euros

Following up to Alan S <nothere@there.com> :

>A tester. I've forgotten the keyboard settings to create the
>symbols so these are cut and pasted from an excel page:
>
>€ € € €
>
>£ £ £ £

row of Euros and a row of pounds.
--
Tim C.

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:12:43 +0200, Tim C. <tim.challenger@aon.at>
wrote:

>Following up to Alan S <nothere@there.com> :
>
>>A tester. I've forgotten the keyboard settings to create the
>>symbols so these are cut and pasted from an excel page:
>>
>>¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
>>
>>£ £ £ £
>
>row of Euros and a row of pounds.

bunch of coconuts next?
--
Martin

Alan S schrieb:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:02:24 +0200, igor
> <a0403243@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Tim C. wrote:
>>> Following up to igor <a0403243@unet.univie.ac.at> :
>>>
>>>
>>>> tim saw the ? instead of the euro sign, because probably his newsreader
>>>> either doesn't support 8 bit encodings
>>> I saw the Euro symbol in Alan's original post.
>> Then you've got proper settings for receiving messages, but wrong
>> settings for sending - you should find somewhere the "use default
>> character encoding in replies" option and disable it. This option
>> enabled, produces ?'s in replies.
>>
>> igor
>
> A tester. I've forgotten the keyboard settings to create the
> symbols so these are cut and pasted from an excel page:
>
> ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
>
> £ £ £ £
>
> Cheers, Alan, Australia

It works now, because you are sending with latin9 encoding. Your former
postings were encoded in us-ascii or latin1, which both do not contain a ¤!

Oh, i see now your original posting was encoded in latin1, but it gave a
correct ¤ here. Seems to be a clever strategy by Thunderbird, Agent &
Co. That should not work in the context of latin1.

The problem was caused by a certain "tim (back at home)" using Microsoft
Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 by not setting a content-type in the
header. Big Brother is watching you! ;-)

Cheers, Josef, Munich, Germany ;-)

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:31:08 +0100, "Miss L. Toe"
<missltoemissltoe@m> wrote:

>
>> >>¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
>> >>
>> >>£ £ £ £
>> >
>> >row of Euros and a row of pounds.
>>
>> bunch of coconuts next?
>
>Have you got a lovely bunch ?

oh yes indeedy
--
Martin

On 2006-04-12, igor <a0403243@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> The message, in which there was the euro sign has been sent by Alan
> using the ISO-8859-1 (8 bit) encoding. That is, the correct encoding.

There is no euro sign in ISO-8859-1. There's a currency sign (looks like
a circle on top of an x), that some readers will display as a euro sign,
but that's not really standard.

If you want to make sure, write euro or EUR. That always work.