"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> TC wrote:
>>> Shouldn't that technically be "?"? It's just that the original ASCII 
>>> standard included "^" (why?) but not "?". Or that's how I heard it. In 
>>> books it's usually written as a superscript or as "?", but never, ever 
>>> as "^" except in programming languages...
>>
>> My VIC 20 had the ? - which was very useful when programming any game 
>> with ASCII graphics. It made a nice missile. ;-)
>
> ...so I'm guessing there was some kind of encoding error with this post. 
> But I get what you're saying anyway. ;-)

This shows us the joys of different encodings. ;-)

In my websites I changed all "?" to "EUR", so my customers can easily use 
the contents in different portals without having to worry about encoding. 
Copying UTF-encoded symbols and pasting the contents into a CMS is like 
playing with a wheel-of-fortune... you can never say what you will get.

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