22 Jan 12 20:42, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
    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.   
      
    ml> /OR/ it has been converted by another system or the local system...   
      
   If I didn't mention this above, I did in this packet.   
      
    ml> i've never run 'convert umlaut' on my system but i see them coming in   
    ml> all the time looking something different... some get converted but a   
    ml> huge amount are coming in with different characters... eg: the   
    ml> division symbol...   
      
   The system that does the ö conversion is using HA, it just doesn't know   
   that it should be converting ” to oe...   
      
      
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