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   Maurice Kinal to Holger Granholm   
   Character codes   
   21 Feb 19 22:44:07   
   
   Hej Holger!   
      
    HG> However, if diaeresis is the same as the 'divide' sign   
      
   It is the 'o' character with two dots on top.  The 'o' character with the   
   'divide' sign - I call it the slashed 'o' which hardcore encoding gurus call   
   'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE' - is decimal 248 in latin1 and doesn't   
   exist in CP437.   
      
    HG> In Latin 1 it's represented by chr code D8   
      
   That is 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE' and also doesn't exist in CP437.   
      
    HG> In Latin 1 it's represented by chr code D8 or dec.216 which   
    HG> happens to be the same as in CP 437.   
      
   No it isn't.  According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 D8 or   
   dec.216 is a line drawing character and in latin1 it is 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER   
   O WITH STROKE' or character 'Ø' in utf8.   
      
    HG> "IBM OS/2 Warp 4" "Keyboards and Code Pages"   
      
   I found a pdf online entitled "OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, Keyboards and   
   Codepages" and do not see PC8 listed in there.  It does have 'Codepage 437'   
   and 'Codepage 819 - ISO 8859-1' and comparing them shows the same results I   
   have stated above.   
      
    HG> MK> '...' En Møøse hade en gång min syster ...   
    HG> What is this .................^^ in Latin 1?   
      
   F8 or dec.248 (not a character in CP437) for the second and third characters   
   in Møøse, and E5 or dec.229 (86 or dec.134 in CP437) for the second   
   character in gång.  The encoding gurus call it "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH   
   RING ABOVE" which I believe in Swedish is called the small letter angstrom.    
   Please correct me if I am wrong.   
      
   Livet är gott,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... En Møøse hade en gång min syster ...   
   --- GNU bash, version 5.0.2(1)-release (aarch64-raspi3b+-linux-gnu)   
    * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113)   

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