Doug:
I think what Chris Jones had to say was more accurate and detailed than me,
so ignore my post on this.
<g>
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: poetry
>Doug:
>
>"
>Your name comes to me with a little square for the Å, & all the letters you
>were showing us also came to me as little squares, which is to say that I
>therefore have no idea what you were pointing to.
>
>That scrambled effect, I guess...
>
>Clearly Robin did not have this problem...
>"
>
>Odd, this. I'm running plaintext, not HTML, but I still get Arni's posts
>OK.
>
>Are you running on a restricted ascii set, Doug? This would mean that any
>character outside the (limited -- 256?) set would be replaced by a little
>square box.
>
>You could try switching fonts, this might help.
>
>But I think this may be one for the professional computer mavins on the
list
>...
>
You're probably right, Robin
but though I understand the words in your comment, I have no idea whether
or not they
're factual, or how to do anythng about it if they are. Although I can type
the Å in Årni & send it out (don't know at all about the others
characters), so it's the incoming mail that doesn't seem up to the task...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
You know, verse
is a lovely thing.
It issues,
like the vapors,
from the rock
Charles Olson
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