>Hi Bruce - and thanks for your long and detailed dissertation on Mime errors
>etc. - in particular with reference to the Pound sign.
>
>In furture if I want to insert this I will write the piece in Word and then
>cut and paste into the email. This should work????
Patrick - no!
I think you have missed the vital part of Bruce's explanation - the
UK pound sign is not included in the 128-character US ASCII set.
However you contrive to insert that character (which will be
different character codes depending on various features of your own
machine) in your message, it will still NOT get transmitted as-is by
e-mail.
It's like sending a wing spar by railway wagon; if your spar is
longer than the standard wagon, a bit will get chopped off before the
rail journey. If the packing agent doesn't include instructions on
how to repair the now 2-piece spar, or if the unpacking agent
discards those instructions (the case described by Bruce) then you as
final recipient don't even know you're not getting the full original
spar at your end.
For unambiguous representation of the UK sterling pound sign without
writing those words out in full, many people use the abbreviation
"UKP". I have seen "L" occasionally but despite it being the obvious
abbreviation of "Libra" (as in Librae, Solidi, Denarii - LSD) I don't
know if that would be widely interpreted correctly. Less commonly,
and probably more confusingly, some use the US pound sign (#, binary
010 0011, octal 043, decimal 035, hex 23) instead. Mac people in UK
generate this by option-3; I imagine there is some similar facility
available in other operating systems and hardware. Obviously, in the
USA and its dominions, shift-3 generates #, not UK pound sign.
Hope this helps!
regards
Rowland
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