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   CHRS: UTF-8 4   
   Hey mark!   
      
    ml> so, i'm going to try to write a UTF-8 character and see what happens...   
      
    ml> ö small o with two dots   
    ml> î small i with rooftop   
      
   Excellent.  Good thing your CHRS kludge doesn't actually do anything.  What a   
   crock FTS-5003 is.  ;-)   
      
    ml> hummm... not seeing the glyphs in the editor :(   
      
   That doesn't surprise me.  They look perfect here.  U+00F6 (dec 246) for "ö   
   small o with two dots" and U+00EE (dec 238) "î small i with rooftop".  In   
   8-bit hex-speak that will be;   
      
     echo -en "\u00f6" | xxd -ps | sed 's/.\{2\}/& /' => c3 b6   
      
   and   
      
     echo -en "\u00ee" | xxd -ps | sed 's/.\{2\}/& /' => c3 ae   
      
   The leading c3 byte tells me they are both 16-bit glyphs ... or whatever the   
   kids are calling characters these days.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Don't cry for me I have vi.   
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