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To determine if your font is Unicode-compliant, with all its characters coded and mapped correctly, choose the Font in any program (or in Font Book, set the preview area to Custom (Preview > Custom), and type Option-Shift-2.

If you get a euro character (a sort of uppercase C with two horizontal lines through its midsection), it's 99.9 percent certain the font is Unicode-compliant. If you get a graphic character that's gray rounded-rectangle frame with a euro character inside it, the font is definitely not Unicode-compliant. (The fact that the image has a euro sign in it is only coincidental: it's the image used for any missing currency sign.)

This assumes that you're using U.S. input keyboard, which is a little ironic when the euro symbol is the test. With the British keyboard, for instance, Option-2 produces the euro symbol if it's part of the font.

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Netiquette for Execs

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Netiquette for Execs -- Casimir Couvillion <casimir@tgsgeo.com> passed along an excellent suggestion that we'll be sure to work on for a future issue of NetBITS:

I really liked the first issue of NetBITS. I particularly enjoyed the Real Life Internet Lessons for Kids article, which was a great synopsis of netiquette and what to look out for on the Internet. It will certainly get passed around a lot (with appropriate citation of course). I would love to see a version of this edited to speak strictly to adults. While the lessons are valid for adults, I would find it difficult to forward it as it is to executives in our company. They need to read it, but might feel that I'm talking down to them by giving it to them as it is.

 

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