Re: Disputes on this and other RISCOS Groups

I demand that Alan Calder may or may not have written...

In article <4ee23f6940UCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John Williams (News)
<UCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
Your non-proportional fonts will also contain these as conventional
characters, as they are designed for word-processing. I really meant /my/
non-proportional font, which is a clearer (IMHO) version of the system
font.

Try system and you'll see what I mean.

Thanks for the explanation but it still doesn't work. Change my alternate
font to System from Corpus Medium and although I get a horrible display
(you *really* like it like that?) still no sign of any strange characters
of any kind. Can it be that the font you are using is non-standard in some
way?

The problem is that the headers in question claim that the character set in
use is ISO8859-1, but ? and ? are not defined in ISO8859-1. They are,
therefore, undefined and, as such, are allowed to do things such as causing
nasal demons.

What's likely, though, is that they'll be displayed using replacement
"undefined" glyphs, or they'll be displayed "as is". If the latter, *and* the
font in use happens to be a sufficiently-complete Acorn Extended Latin-1,
they'll appear as intended.

(This posting claims to be encoded as ISO8859-1. Due to those two characters,
it isn't.)

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