In a message on 02-21-19 Maurice Kinal said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hi Maurice,   
      
    HG> However, if diaeresis is the same as the 'divide' sign   
      
   OK, the divide sign on the numerical keypad is a dash with dots above   
   and below the dash.   
      
   MK> It is the 'o' character with two dots on top.  The 'o' character   
      
   OK that's the umlaut 'o' that exists in swedish, finnish and german   
   languages.   
      
   MK> with the 'divide' sign - I call it the slashed 'o' which hardcore   
   MK> encoding gurus call 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE' - ....   
      
   That's the letter in danish that represents the umlaut 'o' in swedish,   
   finnish and german.   
      
    HG> In Latin 1 it's represented by chr code D8   
      
   Yep, that represents the capital umlaut 'O' of swedish, finnish and   
   german.   
      
   MK> That is 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE' and also doesn't exist   
   MK> 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.   
      
   MK> No it isn't.  According to   
   MK> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 D8 or dec.216 is a line   
   MK> drawing character and in latin1 it is 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH   
   MK> STROKE' or character 'Ø' in utf8.   
      
   Right. Thanks for that 'Ø' addition to my UTF conversion table.   
      
    HG> "IBM OS/2 Warp 4" "Keyboards and Code Pages"   
      
   MK> I found a pdf online entitled "OS/2 Warp Server for e-business,   
   MK> Keyboards and Codepages" and do not see PC8 listed in there.   
      
   In my vocabulary PC8 is what is called ASCII 2 or extended ASCII and in   
   IBM's code pages 850. This CP 850 is also called 'Multilingual'.   
      
   MK> It does have 'Codepage 437' and 'Codepage 819 - ISO 8859-1' and   
   MK> 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?   
      
   MK> F8 or dec.248 (not a character in CP437). Yes it is and represents   
   the degree sign in code pages 437, 850 and in 819 as B0 dec.176.   
      
   When I want to insert the degree sign in a Windows DOC I use ALT+0176.   
   However, I haven't found that sign in Messenger.   
      
   MK> ..... the second and third characters in Møøse,   
   MK> and E5 or dec.229 (86 or dec.134 in CP437) for the second character   
   MK> in gång.   
   MK> "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE" which I believe in Swedish is   
   MK> called the small letter angstrom.  Please correct me if I am wrong.   
      
   Correct, but so far I can't recall having seen that letter in a danish   
   text, but I may be wrong. Let's hear what Benny says .   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
      
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