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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:03:10 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
[...]"/ño".
[...]"ð" ...

I'm guessing these are supposed to be letters + tildes on top. Funny thing,
tho' - on my computer, which has a Hebrew + English system, I see them as
hebrew letters.
I've rarely seen that before - I think the only other time was when someone
sent me email, with one letter that appeared as a hebrew character. OTOH, I
often get emails that are supposed to be in hebrew but arrive as a mass of
unrelated characters ([aeiou] with tildes or accent marks).

Not being a *total* math geek (only a partial one ;-) I'm not really sure what
would cause that. Obviously it has something to do with my system... but what?

Any thoughts?

-Shiri



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  Re: URL characters
 
(...) No it's not your system..:-) it's just the case of different code pages. Same extended ASCII codes used for specialized characters of many other languages at the same time. I mean what you see on the monitor when you type a special character, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)

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Todd Lehman: (...) The primary reason for disallowing ~ is the special treatment it gets in several European languages. If people type <slash> <tilde> <s> <p> (expecting "/~sp") some systems will just return "sp". Similarly if people type <slash> (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)

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