In a message on Wednesday 11-26-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
   > Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as   
   > the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.   
      
   If I enter Alt-247, I get the '÷' double tilde, the single '~' I have   
   available on the scandinavian keyboard, and checking the keyboard maps   
   of various US keyboards, it seems also to be available on all of them by   
   'Shift-key left of the 1 key' on the top row of the main keyboard.   
      
   I cannot understand why entering the same code on each side of the pond,   
   gives different characters, unless you use another code page than 437.   
      
   > Dunno, what operating system you use.   
      
   MP> OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit,   
   MP> both for DOS.   
      
   Oh, SLMR is long ago forgotten here. I use, as you can see, the MR/2 QWK   
   reader, and QEdit for OS/2, alternatively The Semware Editor, DOS vers.   
      
   As an alternative QWK-package I have MultiMail, also configured to use   
   QEdit/2.   
      
   I really do love the MR/2 QWK package.   
      
      
   Have a good night,   
      
   Holger   
      
      
   .. Speed kills so run Windows.   
   -- MR/2 2.30   
      
      
   --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2   
    * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228)