On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Alex Risselada wrote:

Hi there.

I have a weired question, I think. I like to make a 'special character' in an email, but I don't know how to do that. In dos there was the ASCII table whitch you could access whit an ALT+number.

This also exists in my SuSE 6.3 default install. Try man ascii and man iso_8859_1 to see which characters have which codes.

This example character I copied from an e-mail ;-) £

This example character, I wrote by holding ALT and typing 163 on the keypad ;-) £

Anny suggestions???

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Hi Alex, You must use the [iso_8859_1] way if you want to ensure that you get it through, but better loop mail your self with some tests till you get it right. There is another way, as is to embed the [£] as: [#pound;] (changing the [#] by [&], this as to ensure you get it) being this form the HTML form. This last HTML form is the one you used to show us your char example. But the ones not using a HTML capable mailer, will see it literally as the full chain of chars. I think that will be better the [iso_8859_1] form. Modern mailers will translate as needed when received, unless packed with some form of escape sequence, as to display it literally. If you got the ability to show mail source on your mail client, it will help. And keep in mind that the _national_ chars are apart of the pure ANSI ones, as you already know. ---- Alex Risselada wrote:

Hi there.

I have a weired question, I think.

Do not bother, you are welcome.

I like to make a 'special character' in an email, but I don't know how to do that. In dos there was the ASCII table whitch you could access whit an ALT+number. This example character I copied from an e-mail ;-) £ Anny suggestions???

Thanks in advance

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