On Sat, 04 Apr 2015, Maurice Kinal wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> i cannot... it turns out that the character seen here is ALT-15 or 
 ml> 0x0f in CP437...

 MK> 0xa4 is 0xa4 no matter what.

the character that arrived here was the open circle with eight short rays
coming off of it... it was not 0xa4 at all... i specifically looked at the hex
of the message in question before i wrote my post above...

)\/(ark