X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,ec476c4df1e21c64 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-21 17:01:13 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Harry Mason Subject: Re: how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+" References: Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: vampire.ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: 22 Jun 2002 00:54:47 GMT X-Trace: 22 Jun 2002 00:54:47 GMT, vampire.ecs.soton.ac.uk Lines: 17 Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!news-spool.soton.ac.uk!news.ecs.soton.ac.uk!vampire.ecs.soton.ac.uk Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:17827 On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:45 -0700, Mikey Ireland wrote: > how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+" i know it's not > l33t, which i find annoying. but i think this is pretty cool. It depends. Most of these characters are not ASCII but Latin-1, an extended character set. If a Central European user (Latin-2) looked at your example, it would look more like "mdnordty retort" than "minority report", and in UTF-8 mode Mozilla renders it as "M???r?ty R3??r+". To find these characters you have to use a lookup program like xfd (X11), Character Map (MS Windows) or Key Caps (Mac OS, IIRC). In this group you should stick to the ASCII character set (codes 32-126), or your post might look different to different users. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)