[AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming

[charlie hill]

Thanks Mike,  I know more now than I did.  I did know there was a way to 
type those special characters in Windows and I know there is a way to write 
your own macros for them but it's way too much trouble and too much to 
remember for me to worry with it.  If I was writing a technical document 
that had to just right it would come in handy.

Charlie

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From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 10:47 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming

> If you are using a MS Windows operating system, Charlie, you have those
> characters. Just go to "Accessories", then "System Tools", then
> "Character Map". That will show you all the special characters and the
> keystrokes needed to print them. For instance of you want to show 80°,
> you need to type "80" and then hold down the "alt" key while hitting
> "248" on the number pad to the right (NOT above the letters). That's my
> 2¢ worth (<alt> 0162). :-)
>
> But, the more I think about it, the Lancaster Farming problem is more
> likely the result of a problem with their OCR (Optical Character
> Recognition) application failing to read the printed version of the ads
> and just substituting nonsense characters in order to alert the operator
> to a problem (which is obviously being ignored).
>
> What the problem is with your correspondents' messages is anyone's
> guess. One possible cause might be "noisy" telephone lines, although the
> nature of TCP/IP protocol is supposed to eliminate the problem of
> "garbled" messages.
>
> Mike
>
> On 8/1/2010 9:19 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Hi Mike,  I wasn't criticizing your good work and I guess I used the
>> wrong example but I often see that.
>> Stuff printed in characters that I don't even have on my keyboard and I
>> just wondered how it happens.
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 6:27 AM
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 7/31 Lancaster Farming
>>
>>> In this particular case, Charlie, that is the way they show up in the
>>> on-line ads. I use Firefox browser, and I checked to see if MS Internet
>>> Explorer shows up the same way - that used to be a common problem, but
>>> it isn't here, the odd characters still show up. So it isn't a problem
>>> at your end; Lancaster Farming is probably using some kind of antique
>>> application to either scan the printed ads or upload them to the server.
>>>
>>> Mike
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