X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,ea64cebcca8f7205 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Brock Kevin Nambo" Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS TREE Date: 1997/12/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 308477805 References: <349742E5.4487EB71@on.spammer> <34994873.41C67EA6@on.spammer> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <34994873.41C67EA6@on.spammer>... >Mark Anderson wrote: >> (Veronica Karlsson) wrote: >> > David Day wrote: >> � Don't know - looks like a small spaceship. >> > >Looks like a rune to me. I believe it's "thorn" but I'm not fluent, so I can't say for sure. >> � Degrees (as in 32� Centigrade... I wish!) >> > >No, it looks like a small troll. What's a small troll look like? (ASCII! ASCII!) >> � This is a double s in German - as in Stra�e (Strasse) meaning Street. >> > >The greek letter beta. It looks like both, but more like the ss/sz ligature (i.e., the German one) because the tail on the Greek is usually presented as going below the finishing hook. Hm.. >> � I believe that this is an accented o used in the Norwegian? language. >> > >I see the same symbol as you see, but it is not "an accented o", it is a >Norwegian �. An � is not a funny looking O, it is a completely different >letter with a completely different sound, it just happens to look a >little bit like an O. It's a slashed o. (/) like that, only more o-like. ;) >>  This symbol appears on *my* computer when I try to display a forbidden >> character, or a character that has no symbol assigned to it. >> > >This symbol appears on my computer not at all. It's a square box. _ |_| only more connected. :) >> � This means "very much greater than" in mathematical terms, as in >> 10e12�1 (ten thousand billion is very much greater than one). >> > >Yes, I see the same thing that you see. Odd, I thought it went with � (its mirror image character) as European-style quote marks? At least, I forget what language I saw them used in, but it was --oh never mind, all the people I argue against know everything more about Europe than I do, 9/10ths of y'all are Nederlanders.. Anyway, I see << and >> and is taht what you see? >> � Another accented character, but from which language I do not know. >> > >I see a Y with a dot over it. Y with an accent that does not go ` that way. (it goes the other way.) >> I hope this is of some assistance to you, but why you should want to know >> I have no idea. >> > >I have no idea either. All I know is that you shouldn't use those >characters to make ascii art! One reason is that different people will >see different things (if they see anything at all) when someobody uses >such characters. This depends on what kind of computer you have, what >program you use, what country you live in and if the wind comes from the >north. Because if the wind's in the East, then MARY POPPINS comes in and everything goes weird. >>BKNambo, yeahO! -- http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1936556 http://come.to/brocks.place World Domination Through Trivia!