On my keyboard, the figure 4 has a Euro currency sign to the right of the 4.
If I type [4 with Alt Gr pressed] in a post, it comes out as a euro sign,
but when I send that post to a newsgroup, it comes out as a question mark.
What's going on?

Steve

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:12:48 -0000, shazzbat wrote:

An example in your post may have been handy in case there were clues to
see what was happening.

Not all character sets are equal. On screen you see what your
OS/Country/Regional settings do, when you post the range of allowed
characters may be different.

Then again you are using OE.

Tested to my ISP internal test group, works fine in Agent v2.0 , posting
and viewing. Using OE6 to view same message I see the ? instead, in the
preview pane.

So OE is broken, select the message, properties , details , message
source , that viewer shows the euro symbol fine. Thus part of OE doesn't
and another part works.

Me

shazzbat wrote:
This is my guess. Well, partly some guess and some I know.

The euro is ascii char 128, which is beyond 7 bit ascii, which goes
0-127. There is a lot of variability in the char sets above 127.

Your newsreader OE is presumably configurable to read in western
european windows or western european iso in Tools/ Options/ Read tab/
Fonts and to use that default encoding on all incoming messages.

Your newsreader OE is configurable to send in the default font in Send/
International settings, and there are many settings to choose from such
as west eur win or west eur iso or unicodes UTF 7 ur UTF 8 .

If you try to send a euro € you will get an alert from OE that you are
trying to send a character that isn't in your default and that your
viewer may not be able to read it properly depending upon their display
condition. You are provided with 3 options, to send as unicode, to send
as is, or to cancel.

That will happen when I send this message. When it does, I will choose
to send as unicode.

Then, I have another different problem when I want to read it. In order
to see the euro € that I sent, I will have to configure my Read
different than I normally have it set. I will have to uncheck use
default encoding on all incoming messages.

If I do all of that, I can both send and read the euro in a news message
on my OE6 system.

Where I have typed the word 'euro' without the quotes, I have followed
it with the euro € symbol, which I can enter with hold alt zero one two
eight release alt on the number keypad.

Depending upon how I view that symbol, I might see a question mark -- or
a small a circumflex (ascii 226) + 'not' symbol (ascii 172) [I'll try
that here ⬠-- or the euro € I intended.



--
Mike Easter

Mike Easter wrote:

If I uncheck use default encoding on all incoming messages, I can see
all of these extended chars as described in this par

If I leave it checked as is my usual configuration, I can't see the
euro, but see what the par describes, and I can't see the ascii 226 +
ascii 172 'correctly'

--
Mike Easter