On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:03:01 GMT, sf >
scribbled some thoughts:


>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:00:06 -0800, Frank J Warner
> wrote:
>
>> I have a Mac-based, text-only news reader. Fractions in your recipes
>> show up as the mathematical symbols for pi, less-than-or-equal-to, etc,
>> instead of fractions. The example below may or may not illustrate what
>> I mean. In any event, they're not fractions in my news reader.
>>
>> I'm not about to ask anyone to change their posting habits to
>> accommodate this problem but perhaps you can post a conversion chart or
>> recommend a Macintosh font that has the appropriate fraction symbols.
>
>It's not a Mac problem... it's universal. I post with
>Windows and learned quickly that fractions were translated
>into the first numeral, so 1/4 C became as 1 C. Yeow! Now
>I make sure that I reconvert my fractions into "long hand"
>before posting.
>

I'm not sure it is that, you may have an external addon for
Free Agent which changes it. Agent Version 2.0 does not
change my fractions, nor does Windows.

Also the problem is the ASCII character code:

032 [space] 048 0 064 @ 080 P 096 ` 112 p
033 ! 049 1 065 A 081 Q 097 a 113 q
034 " 050 2 066 B 082 R 098 b 114 r
035 # 051 3 067 C 083 S 099 c 115 s
036 $ 052 4 068 D 084 T 100 d 116 t
037 % 053 5 069 E 085 U 101 e 117 u
038 & 054 6 070 F 086 V 102 f 118 v
039 ' 055 7 071 G 087 W 103 g 119 w
040 ( 056 8 072 H 088 X 104 h 120 x
041 ) 057 9 073 I 089 Y 105 i 121 y
042 * 058 : 074 J 090 Z 106 j 122 z
043 + 059 ; 075 K 091 [ 107 k 123 {
044 , 060 < 076 L 092 \ 108 l 124 |
045 - 061 = 077 M 093 ] 109 m 125 }
046 . 062 > 078 N 094 ^ 110 n 126 ~
047 / 063 ? 079 O 095 _ 111 o


If people were to limit their writing to just the codes
above then the text would be read and understood by all
without having to switch to another proggie/font.

--

Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\