Re: Character Code Limited Music Symbols

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From: Don MI <> (d7macm8_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:23:03 -0400

"Joy" <joymp2@bellsouth.net.NO_SPAM> wrote in message
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> Don,
> I keep my outgoing e-mail on Rich Text. It's only otherwise if I'm doing
> Reply to someone who sent plain text. But we are talking new mail, not
> reply. When you say Alt+ASCII, do you mean Alt+the number pad numbers?
(Or
> something else). I've seen the term ASCII a lot, but not sure what it
> means, or is. Using Rich Text, if I use Alt+155 I get something different
> than what I had received from someone else using Alt+155. That's the
puzzle
> to me.
> Joy
>

ALT-ASCII = ALT+ the number pad numbers.

ASCII is an acronym referring to a standard established by a technical group
recognized by the National Bureau of Standards as authorized to produce
standards. A number of such engineering groups are so recognized. I think,
but at this time are not sure, that ASC refers to the American Society of
Computer Engineers. ASCII is a standard that relates numbers, characters
and symbols to specific code. For example the number 155 relates to the
cents symbol and the number 0155 relates to the > symbol.

As a standards, the code ALT-155 should always correspond to the cents
symbol. As far as I know all fonts that have ASCII code assigned to
numbers, characters and symbols follow the ASCII standard. While all
numbers, characters have assigned ASCII code numbers not all symbols have
ASCII code numbers. If you look at various symbols in Character Map some
will have only unicode assigned.

I do not understand "Using Rich Text, if I use Alt+155 I get something
different than what I had received from someone else using Alt+155. That's
the puzzle to me.". Unless there a confusion between 155 and 0155. Perhaps
someone else can help.

Don

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