Re: &#61623 ?

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 17:47:12 EST


Ar 14:22 -0800 2000-03-31, scríobh Tony Harminc:
>I have recently received a couple of emails from unrelated people
>(one at yahoo.com and the other at hotmail.com) containing the string
>"" apparently as a list item bullet. This is hex F0B7, which
>is in the private use area.
>
>Does anyone know what character this is trying to be, and what evil
>software is generating such a thing?

Tsk. Software making use of the Private Use Area is not evil per se; the
evil creeps in where the sender and receiver have not agreed what the
character is intended to represent.

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