Thanks to everyone for putting my mind at ease over that! Could the
differences be something to do with "encoding"? If I click on the
VIEW menu in Internet Explorer, and go down to ENCODING, I see that
I'm on WESTERN EUROPEAN (ISO). Changing to WESTERN EUROPEAN
(WINDOWS) doesn't alter the appearence as far as I can see, either
of those letters I typed, or the garbled Auðun. But maybe one of
the other options...

To get the Norse letters I went to the START menu in Windows, to
CONTROL PANEL, and "DATE, TIME, LANGUAGE AND REGIONAL OPTIONS".
Having selected the different keyboard options I wanted, I then
picked key combinations I can use to switch to each of them:
Icelandic, English, etc. Then it's just a matter of finding the
right keys, e.g. in the Icelandic layout ; = æ, - = ö, [ = ð, / = þ,
and ' puts an acute accent over the next vowel you type. (I too am
a computer idiot, and it took me ages to work that one out.)

ιδου δεδωκα υμιν την εξουσιαν του πατειν επανω οφεων και σκορπιων,
και επι πασαν την δυναμιν του εχθρου, και ουδεν υμας ου μη αδικηση.

How does that look? It's Greek to me, and so it should be.

Llama Nom



--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:

> Oh dear, please ignore and delete the firat post on this subject

and this post is the one to be sent

> I never have trouble with your posts LN because I only read them

on Outlook Express.

> Right
> Now if I read my Norse course stuff on Yahoo then its all to

****, even on outlook express sometimes Graces posts come out with
little squareish thingys in where letters should be, some times not,
I have the system that lets you do Alt 0240 for ð but then it looks
a square from someone replying, do you see, and then I think hey I
did so not say that. I do not know the name of the system I use, you
should excuse me I am a computer Idiot

> Patricia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patricia
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 12:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [norse_course] Re: weird font stuff
>
>
>
> May I chip in my two cents, sorry two pence in English

Currency

> I have sometimes difficulty with Graces posts excuse me, but

never with yours LN

> unless I read them on yahoo, because everything on yahoo

from norse course is screwed to ****----- Original Message -----

> From: llama_nom
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 12:21 AM
> Subject: [norse_course] Re: weird font stuff
>
>
>
> Weird thing is, I could actually read that one, but all the

rest are

> gibberish to me, and have been for a few weeks. (Possible

to decifer

> though with a bit of effort.) Maybe everyone's gone over to

a

> different system to me. Or maybe I've accidentally gone

over to a

> different system to everyone else. Can you read these,

which are

> supposed to be a series of vowels with accute accents + the

consonant

> letters "ash", "eth" and "thorn"?
>
> Á á, É é, Í í, Ó ó, Ú ú, Æ æ, Ð ð, Þ þ
>
> Or these, which are supposed to be A a, O o and U u +

diacresis

> (umlaut dots), followed by an 'a' with a ring over it:
>
> Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü, Å å
>
> I always read the messages (and post them) at the Yahoo

Groups

> website, and my posts look the same there as I typed them.

Please let

> me know if they're coming out garbled!!
>
> Llama Nom
>
>