Path: ...!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!2a00:1d38:fa:feed::184.MISMATCH!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arjan de Groot Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Subject: Re: UK pound sign Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 13:24:37 +0200 Organization: Not For Mail Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8c4feb1dbac172318c0f0d2124d52cf9"; logging-data="23731"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19eP7YEU2ZHeSWcm7O0p8NjTVddg106P7o=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oRMYejj+FpgkpDkxSeGswOcXYRM= X-Face: "@b/NBCdQik|0VL.,tKo=NEgJSBQi8O;wc`D9G2|]@YLH8@)Q|R_XC]K)KermbP|PS/;cJ< X-Been-To: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Bytes: 2292 En articulo , DrTeeth escribio: >Aren't both the pound sign and the ALT combo exactly the same as far >as the computer and software are concerned? Yes. If you can't see the £ you probably have your Agent configured to view and send messages in 7-bit ASCII only. ASCII (or us-ascii) has only room for 128 different characters (letters, numbers, common punctuation marks and some "special" ones. If you want to use (up to 256) characters like ü, á, ñ, ê, € and £ you'll have to configure Agent to use special codepages. See menu: Tools -> Options -> Languages. Set Codepage to: Western Europe (Codepage 1252) Send Usenet As: Western Windows-compatible (us-ascii, ISO-8859-1) Send Email As: Western Windows-compatible (us-ascii, ISO-8859-1) Default Charset: Latin9 Western with euro (ISO-8859-15) Usenet Text: 7bit/8bit That should do it. You could of course also go all modern and use Unicode (UTF) if you want (and understand how it works). Arjan