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Old 26-02-2011, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by mozzie View Post
same here matt... no symbol on a mac too.....
Several links say things like this, so I guess newer Macs have the same problem. Roll on UTF-8.

The Mac OS Roman character set (often referred to as MacRoman and known by the IANA as simply MACINTOSH) has most, but not all, of the same characters as ISO-8859-1 but in a very different arrangement; and it also adds many technical and mathematical characters and more diacritics. Older Macintosh web browsers were known to munge the few characters that were in ISO-8859-1 but not their native Macintosh character set when editing text from Web sites. Conversely, in Web material prepared on an older Macintosh, many characters were displayed incorrectly when read by other operating systems.
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