Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? (Side Track)

[Carol]

bboyminn wrote:
> 
<snip>
> 
> Also, if your Character Encoding View is set to Unicode instead
> of Western, even the codes I've entered here won't view 
> right. There are a lot of complicating factors here.

Carol again:
Mine is set to Western unless I'm reading Tonks's posts, which require
me to set it to Unicode so the quotation marks and apostrophes won't
show up as gibberish.
> 
Carol earlier:
> >
> > BTW, Yahoo won't let me use your method. ... 
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> I always post on-line, in the actual Yahoo Group, and it lets me
enter these codes all the time, as this post here clearly attests.
> 
> Also, I quickly opened MS-Word (ver 2000; 9.0.2720) and had no
problem entering ALT 0163 and ALT 0128 to get the British Pound mark
and the EURO sign. 
> 
> The only explanation I have is that you must have bad Karma.
> (Its' a joke)

Carol:

Bad karma! I'm doomed! <g> So it's not Yahoo or Word 2000. It must be
some setting on my keyboard, which plinks at me if I try to type Alt
anything! Really, it does. Come to Tucson and try it. :-)

Carol, who has heard enough about karma and Huna and "spirit guides"
in her current 2012-related editing project to last a lifetime!