Sat, 9 Dec 1995 16:31:05 -0400
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>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=
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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)
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