On 5/5/2018 9:33 AM, GS wrote:
On 5/5/2018 8:50 AM, GS wrote:
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Q: How did you get the underlined text?

Just use underscores; display result 'pends on the newsreader
recognizing them; T'Bird does for the most part; not all will/do.

I don't see how 2 different characters can occupy the same space and so
was expecting the 'flag' char as what we use to boldface, for example.


There aren't two characters; it's unicode "combining characters"
character; is dependent upon font in use and the renderer to recognize
it; if it works it gives the effect; at worst one gets an idea of the
intended effect as just a leading/trailing underscore in plain text on
older newsreaders.

Not positive which release in T'bird it actually began to look like
underlined text; discovered it by pure accident as had used the form for
some emphasis on old groups with plain-vanilla readers "like since
forever" so is just a result of newer systems with an old and never
standard habit.

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On 5/5/2018 9:33 AM, GS wrote:
On 5/5/2018 8:50 AM, GS wrote:
...

Q: How did you get the underlined text?

Just use underscores; display result 'pends on the newsreader recognizing
them; T'Bird does for the most part; not all will/do.

I don't see how 2 different characters can occupy the same space and so was
expecting the 'flag' char as what we use to boldface, for example.


There aren't two characters; it's unicode "combining characters" character;
is dependent upon font in use and the renderer to recognize it; if it works
it gives the effect; at worst one gets an idea of the intended effect as just
a leading/trailing underscore in plain text on older newsreaders.

Not positive which release in T'bird it actually began to look like
underlined text; discovered it by pure accident as had used the form for some
emphasis on old groups with plain-vanilla readers "like since forever" so is
just a result of newer systems with an old and never standard habit.

That doesn't answer my Q! I'm guessing that I wrap the text to be underlined in
underscores same as I would asterisks to boldface; - so here goes:

_this is underlined text_

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Garry

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