RW> An umlaut character is merely a high ASCII character...even with a   
    RW> DOS system, the high ASCII character set can be typed. Some   
    RW> keyboards have the ability to turn on or off the umlaut characters.   
    RW> Even if you don't have one of those keyboards, you can use Alt-xxx,   
    RW> xxx representing the Hex code for the character. i.e. Alt-148 will   
    RW> give you the umlaut character in Bj”rn's name. (if the umlaut   
    RW> character isn't displayed on your screen when you read this, it has   
    RW> been converted to 'oe' by my uplink's system.    
      
   /OR/ it has been converted by another system or the local system... i've never   
   run 'convert umlaut' on my system but i see them coming in all the time   
   looking something different... some get converted but a huge amount are coming   
   in with different characters... eg: the division symbol...   
      
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