how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+"

how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+"    i know it's not
l33t, which i find annoying.  but i think this is pretty cool.

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:45 -0700, Mikey Ireland <tri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+"    i know it's not
> l33t, which i find annoying.  but i think this is pretty cool.

It depends. Most of these characters are not ASCII but Latin-1, an extended
character set. If a Central European user (Latin-2) looked at your example,
it would look more like "mdnordty retort" than "minority report", and in UTF-8
mode Mozilla renders it as "M???r?ty R3??r+".

To find these characters you have to use a lookup program like xfd (X11),
Character Map (MS Windows) or Key Caps (Mac OS, IIRC).

In this group you should stick to the ASCII character set (codes 32-126), or
your post might look different to different users.

-- 
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"Mikey Ireland" <tri...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+"    i know it's not
>l33t, which i find annoying.  but i think this is pretty cool.

If you have the right keyboard driver, it's no problem. 

Or if you have an Emacs, there you can use Control+X, 8 to create all
characters from the latin1 charset. 

Or you use (in WIndows) the charcter Map (from the Accessories in
Start menu) or type ugly Alt+0xxx codes...

Or - in Linux - use the Compose key feature.

But you should make your outlook express to add MIME headers for your
postings, so that everybody arount the world knows that � should be an
acute accent and not a Z with upside down ^ on it...

H�����v���� f����,

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At Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:16:45 -0700 "Mikey Ireland" <tri...@yahoo.com>
wrote 5 Lines about "how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty
R3��r+"" in "alt.ascii-art"

>how do you format names like this: "M���r�ty R3��r+"    i know it's not
>l33t, which i find annoying.  but i think this is pretty cool.

If you mean automatically with a program I have one called Kewl Talker
Version 2.1.

I can type;

where do you want to go today?

In a field and press a button and it fills other fields with;

Ascii
Wh�� �� ��� W��T T� g� T��奿

Elite
W|-|�� �� ��� W��T T� G� T���

rANdOm CApS
where Do yoU wANt TO go tOdAy?

Backwards
?yadot og ot tnaw uoy od erehw

Ascii look similar to that you wanted, the homepage for the program is
gone but I uploaded a copy at My webpage if you want it;

http://hem.passagen.se/mame6647/Kewltalk.zip

with all this char-juggling I just have to say:

  oow umop apisdn

or perhaps better:

  oow umop ap!sdn

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http://www.nord-com.net/dkreie/            dlk...@deelkar.ath.cx

  DLK  <|\            
        | \          
~ ~~_*-_|__\__~~  ~~   @~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"@
 ~~ \________/  ~~ ~   )  ho wo kakete korobosoge ni yuku fune no  )
  ~~   ~~`�  ~~ ~~     (  ichiro kanashi mo uraraka nareba...      (
~~    ~~  ~~   ~~ ~~   @._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,@
                  

why moo?

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Dirk-Lueder Kreie wrote:

> with all this char-juggling I just have to say:
>
>   oow umop apisdn
>
> or perhaps better:
>
>   oow umop ap!sdn
>
> --
> Dirk-Lüder Kreie                the email address is correct *as is*
> http://www.nord-com.net/dkreie/            dlk...@deelkar.ath.cx
>
>   DLK  <|\
>         | \
> ~ ~~_*-_|__\__~~  ~~   @~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"@
>  ~~ \________/  ~~ ~   )  ho wo kakete korobosoge ni yuku fune no  )
>   ~~   ~~`´  ~~ ~~     (  ichiro kanashi mo uraraka nareba...      (
> ~~    ~~  ~~   ~~ ~~   @._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,@
>
>

Peter <ppb...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

| oow umop apisdn

> why moo?
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Dirk-Lueder Kreie wrote:

why not?

http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=5&team=1
 
It's an old d.net "gag".

-- 
Dirk-L�der Kreie                the email address is correct *as is*
http://www.nord-com.net/dkreie/            dlk...@deelkar.ath.cx

  DLK  <|\            
        | \          
~ ~~_*-_|__\__~~  ~~   @~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"=~^"@
 ~~ \________/  ~~ ~   )  ho wo kakete korobosoge ni yuku fune no  )
  ~~   ~~`�  ~~ ~~     (  ichiro kanashi mo uraraka nareba...      (
~~    ~~  ~~   ~~ ~~   @._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,=._,@