[sdiy] Strange char, was: Spotted a couple of BBD kits

[KA4HJH]

>>Hm, I'm on Mac here too. This character looks like a capital D with a
>>minus sign typed over it.
>
>Thats because in the HTML header it tells the browser to use the ISO
>8859-1 character encoding.
>If you use the Mozilla browser you can manually override the character
>encoding, if you set it
>to "MacCE" it displays a long dash. Which I assume is correct.
>

I just tried that in iCab and nothing changed when it re-rendered the page.
Strange.

The character in the HTML is ASCII 220, which (on a Mac) is "guillemot
single left".

You'd think it should be something like an em-dash...
-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"If The Amazing Kreskin was a mentalist then what the hell is a
fundamentalist?"