Re: Character Code Limited Music Symbols

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From: Joy (joymp2_at_bellsouth.net.NO_SPAM)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:21:09 -0400

Thanks, Don,

What I meant by getting something different with Alt+155 is that someone
sent me a smiley face in an e-mail and she said she did it doing Alt+155,
whereas what I get is, as you say, the cents symbol. Also she sent musical
notes using Alt+154, but doing that I get Ü. My original question was how I
could put musical notes in an e-mail. Might a Mac have a different
arrangement? She was writing from a school where she works, and it's
possible the school might have Macs, I haven't had a chance to ask her yet.
"Don MI <>" <d7macm8@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Joy" <joymp2@bellsouth.net.NO_SPAM> wrote in message
> news:e8C$UPebEHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > 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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