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On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 08:59:31 +0000 (GMT)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Gordon,
> E = MCÂ
> Ek = ÂmvÂ
> and so on. These might not âlook rightâ to some people though.
Because they (the recipient) don't have a suitable font installed. That
is, one which has glyphs to represent the code sent. Sometimes, if
nothing is listed, the reader gets either a box displayed or, more
often, a couple of glyphs that read as gibberish.
> And I can't work out why, but some people seem to use this symbol: Â
> when they mean the appostrophe: '
Because some fonts that the sender is using have the apostrophe (and
other glyphs) mapped in an unusual place. That code being represented by
another glyph in the recipient's font. Apostrophe and some double quote
marks (as you used around "look right" above) seem to be prone to this in
certain font sets.
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