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   Message 751 of 3,070   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   thunderbird: testing foreign fonts   
   10 Apr 19 13:56:00   
   
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   REPLY: 2:221/360 5cacb690   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.38 (Linux) (x86_64)   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hello August!   
      
   On 09.04.19 at 18:13, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    >> AA>>> But I *was* kinda hoping I could build a signoff with my   
    >> AA>>> lastname in AA>>> full Latvian glory with oxp.   
      
    >>   MF>> Hmmmmm, that may actually be possible ;-)   
    >>   
    >>   AA> HOW?!   
      
    >> You enquired in an earlier post about the possibilty of using an   
    >> external editor, maybe that could solve the problem.   
      
    AA> I kinda already did that with one message here where I tried o include   
    AA> the "tick" mark. Here's another try.  The tick is between the quotes,   
    AA> next, "√".  <--Is it there?   
      
   Nope.   
      
    AA> Another reason I why I expected the tick symbol to work, is because oxp   
    AA> actually uses it!  ;)   
      
   Yeah, well :)   
      
    AA> No matter. The more I dug into charsets and codepages, the more I learned   
    AA> that it can be font-dependent too.   
      
   That sort of stuff has always been a bit of a "black art" with me and     
   I'll probably never understand it all :(   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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