>If you want diacritics, like an umlauted e, I'm afraid you're just >going to have to skip them and stick with lower order ASCII. That's >what they do with Russian in books and newspapers. You're just >supposed to know which is a "ye" and which is a "yo." Been doing it >that way since they've had printing presses. Too much trouble to ha= ve >the extra character when they can use just a plain "e" and leave it = to >the reader to know which it's supposed to be. > >Douglas Hahahahaha. Y-s, - s-pp-s- -t's - b-t l-k- t-p-ng -n -ngl-sh w-th--t th- v-w-ls. ;-) Seriously though, I once used the VMS SEND command to PUT a file that contained an 8-bit character that I had forgotten to strip via BITNET= .=20 It might be necessary to use an option to control the format of the f= ile being sent. The character was stored in the filelist but I don't remember whether it was garbled by any of the steps. I'm sure that somebody remembers how this works. It's easy to check. Of course, a= s soon as you are using the higher order bit, you also have to worry ab= out character set standards. Should you use LATIN-I, DOS, Mac? Who will= be using the data? What software will be used to access it? These are rhetorical questions ;-) Bob (qui pr=E9f=E8re tout de m=EAme =E9crire avec ses accents) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Ponterio | [log in to unmask] co-manager of FLTEACH | State Univ. of New York Cortland Foreign Language Teaching Forum -----------------------------------= =20 http://www.cortland.edu/www/flteach/