18 Jan 12 23:44, Nicholas Boel wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    >>  JK> . When people spell his name with utf-8 in messages that come in   
    >>  JK> here, it is a mess.   
      
    >> And yet he declares utf-8 as being the way to read umlauted   
    >> characters.   
      
    NB> Sure, I believe what they're saying.   
      
   Of course UTF-8 can do that, but I don't think it's the only way to go.   
      
   An umlaut character is merely a high ASCII character...even with a DOS   
   system, the high ASCII character set can be typed. Some keyboards have the   
   ability to turn on or off the umlaut characters. Even if you don't have   
   one of those keyboards, you can use Alt-xxx, xxx representing the Hex code   
   for the character. i.e. Alt-148 will give you the umlaut character in   
   Bj”rn's name. (if the umlaut character isn't displayed on your screen when   
   you read this, it has been converted to 'oe' by my uplink's system.   
      
    NB> Janis has posted what her BBS software supports, and UTF-8 isn't one   
    NB> of them. The Linux nodelist compiler (makenl_ng) doesn't support it,   
    NB> either.   
      
   Janis' BBS software may have the switch to turn it on or off. She'll have   
   to look in her configs for it. There's nothing anyone can do for MN,   
   unless they have the source code to change it.   
      
      
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