X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,9a46445f73d23450 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 03:21:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: What Character is it? Message-ID: <3b83868d.997362@news.ntlworld.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 41 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:18:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.88.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 998475402 62.253.88.64 (Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:16:42 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:16:42 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7076 On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:07:53 +0200, Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin enlightened us with: > In article , > "Nehmo Sergheyev" wrote: > > >������������������� > >How do you find out what exactly a particular character is? I copied and > >pasted the line above, and I know what the copywrite symbol is. But what is > >� ? > > This is the symbol for EURO, the new currency for Europe. > > Greetings from Switzerland -- Gruesse aus der Schweiz > Happl On my screen, this is showing up as \_/ |_| / \ Whereas EURO would be _ / ` (=== \_, Although more rounded. [Font is lucidia console] Stuart (in the UK, which doesn't have the Euro, and didn't think Switzerland had either...) -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm