[aklug] Re: Robert Crowe's emails

Ah-ha! By jove I believe you found the culprit(s)...
Ψ: "*Psi* (uppercase *Ψ*, lowercase *ψ*) is the 23rd letter of the Greek
alphabet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet> and has a
numeric<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals>value of 700. In
both
Classical <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greek> and Modern
Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Greek>,
the letter indicates the combination /ps/ (like in English "lapse"). In
Greek, this consonant cluster can occur in the syllable initial position, as
in the Greek word "ψάρι" [psári (=fish)]. However, in some languages
(including English) this combination is not possible at the beginning of a
syllable."

Φ: "*Phi* (uppercase *Φ*, lowercase *φ* or *ϕ*), pronounced [fi] in modern
Greek <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Greek_language> and as [faɪ] in
English, is the 21st letter of the Greek
alphabet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet>.
In modern Greek, it represents [f], a voiceless labiodental
fricative<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_labiodental_fricative>.
In Ancient Greek it represented [pʰ], an
aspirated<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspiration_%28phonetics%29>
voiceless
bilabial plosive
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_bilabial_plosive>(from which
English ultimately inherits the spelling "
ph <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph_%28digraph%29>" in words derived from
Greek). In the system of Greek
numerals<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals>it has a value of
500 (φʹ) or 500,000 (͵φ). The Cyrillic letter
Ef <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ef_%28Cyrillic%29> (Ф, ф) arose from phi."

μ: *Mu* (uppercase *Μ*, lowercase *μ*;
Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language>:
Μι or Μυ [mi]) is the 12th letter of the Greek
alphabet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet>.
In the system of Greek
numerals<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals>it has a value of
40. Mu was derived from the Egyptian
hieroglyphic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyph> symbol for
water ([image: The hieroglyph
n]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Water_hieroglyph.svg>)
which had been simplified by the
Phoenicians<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia>and named after
their word for water, to become
Mem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mem_%28letter%29> [image:
Mem]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phoenician_mem.svg>.
Letters that arose from Mu include the Roman
M<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M>and the Cyrillic letter
М <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28Cyrillic%29>.

~: The *tilde* (~) (pronounced
/ˈtɪldə/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English>or
/ˈtɪldeɪ/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>) is a
grapheme<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme>with several uses. The
name of the character comes from
Spanish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language>, from the
Latin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin>
*titulus <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/titulus>* meaning a title or
superscription, though the term “tilde” has evolved in that language and now
has a different meaning in Linguistics.

π: *Pi* or *π* is a mathematical
constant<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant>whose
value is the
ratio <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio> of any
circle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle>'s
circumference to its diameter in Euclidean
space<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_geometry>;
this is the same value as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its
radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159 in the usual decimal notation
(see the table for its representation in some other bases). π is one of the
most important mathematical and physical constants: many formulae from
mathematics, science <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science>, and
engineering<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering>involve π.

Over the years I slowly added these to my signature within gmail...and never
had any rendering issues. Crazy.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:

> Robert Crowe wrote, on 3/26/2009 10:05 PM:
> > Crazy-I'm the error magnet this week???
>
> Hmm ... I see no odd encoding - just content-type text/plain. But
> maybe the unusual characters in Robert's .sig are causing Yahoo to burp.
>
> I just tried a traditional 'redirect' of the message to my own Yahoo
> account, but it hasn't arrived - probably unhappy about the sender
> and/or recip being unexpected, SPF mismatch, etc.
>
> I'll bcc: my Yahoo on this message, inserting the same characters:
>
> ŘÖ! ě~đ
>
> Royce
>
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