Hi Roy,   
      
   >>>> A few weeks ago, I tested a segment using utf-8, and it didn't work   
   >>>> well.. ??'s were substituted for the utf-8 character.   
      
   >>>> i.e, Bj??rn is what I get here when I process a segment with BjĶrn   
      
   >>> In either case what I see isn't correct...what is quoted here is what   
   >>> I see in your original. AFAIK, FE doesn't convert umlauted characters   
   >>> if the tosser is configed not to. As in Bjoern.   
      
   > I spelled Bjorn's name using the ctl-148 produced character. As you can   
   > see, it was changed to Bjoern, just like Robert Bashe said it would be.   
      
   Yep..   
      
   >> The only way I can spell Bjorn's name correctly is if I have in front   
   >> of me a clip of his properly spelled name.. then I can copy it with   
   >> my mouse and paste it wherever.   
      
   > But it will end up being spelled in several different ways until everyone   
   > turns on/off the 'convert umlaut' switch...FE provides a switch for that.   
      
   Haven't seen that with BBBS's built-in editor.. if I switched the editor, I   
   might be able to do something like that.   
      
   >> . When people spell his name with utf-8 in messages that come in   
   >> here, it is a mess.   
      
   > And yet he declares utf-8 as being the way to read umlauted characters.   
      
   I know..   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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