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   Hallo mark!   
      
    ml> on my box i had to specifically assign a modifier key to use so   
    ml> as to be able to enter ""blended"" characters...   
      
   By blended do you mean multibyte?  Anyhow I won't quote back your modifier   
   keys as they show as C1 control codes here.  I never use those but perhaps   
   they will work in other editors, maybe even joe.  That I don't know.   
      
    ml> what i describe is what i had to do on a KDE GUI setup...   
      
   Ah!  Yeah I read something about that somewhere.  No KDE here, or anything   
   like it, so I cannot confirm nor deny.  All I know for sure that on the linux   
   console those tricks won't work.  The left  plus the decimal number does   
   on both the console and in vim, as well as the correct control codes, and I'd   
   imagine the same might be true for codepages.  This being a native uft8   
   enviroment makes things much easier when that is the goal.  Also having iconv   
   handy makes it extremely convenient to convert to 8 bit codepages when   
   needed.  However I try and avoid that since I have yet to see a 8 bit codepage   
   that has it all and I am greedy.  ;-)   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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