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   Hello Nicholas,   
      
   On Wednesday March 12 2025 18:48, you wrote to me:   
      
    >> Dutch typewriters had some "dead keys" for the accents. They   
    >> printed he symbol but the carriage remained in the same place, so   
    >> it combined with the following letter. That is of course where de   
    >> "dead key" method in my Dutch keyboard driver comes from.   
      
    NB> So with a typewriter, you would hit a two-key combination typing the   
    NB> accent/umlaut/etc and then the letter in the same place? That's pretty   
    NB> neat.   
      
   Yes, that is how these dead keys work. Easy once you are used to it.   
      
    >> In the very beginning of the computer age here it was A-Z only just   
    >> like in the US. But that quickly changed, Outside the US the demand   
    >> for more than just A-Z was too great to ignore. And Microsoft went   
    >> along...   
      
    NB> I would imagine. Just about everywhere outside of the US uses special   
    NB> characters of some sort. MS went along because they *had* to go along,   
    NB> otherwise they wouldn't have been able to continue their quest of   
    NB> world domination.   
      
   Indeed. But in the beginning it was quite messy with these dozens of code   
   pages. Full support for Unicode started with Win XP IIRC.   
      
    >> I expect you will not run into serious problems setting it up on   
    >> your end. We will see how it works out. Getting (part of) Z1 to   
    >> paticipate in the UTF nodelist project would be nice. :-)   
      
    NB> I shouldn't have any issues setting it up. I've been using the   
    NB> 'allow8bit' keyword in my othernet since it was added to makenl. I'll   
    NB> just have to figure out what to do with it after it is created. ;)   
      
   OK, we will stay tuned.   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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