X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,9a46445f73d23450 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 03:01:31 PST From: spamblock@no.spam (Harry Mason) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: What Character is it? References: Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: lover.ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: 22 Aug 2001 10:56:51 GMT X-Trace: 22 Aug 2001 10:56:51 GMT, lover.ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 12 Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!lon1-news.nildram.net!195.8.68.195.MISMATCH!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!news-spool.soton.ac.uk!news.ecs.soton.ac.uk!spamblock Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7072 On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:51:31 GMT, 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 > � ? In Latin-1 it's 164 dec, a4 hex, but it depends entirely on your character encoding. That's why ascii-art only includes characters 32-126, because they work in every encoding. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)