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Foreign characters on Windows 3.1

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From: Chris Davies
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 04:23
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 > I need to write text in French or Spanish using either the WRITE
 > application of WINDOWS or WORD PERFECT 5.

In DOS Word Perfect there is the compose character (Control-V) that accomplishes
that, i.e. CTRL-V, e' produces e with an grave.  Perhaps in the Windows version
this is also present.  I don't know for sure, but I would think that WordPerfect
would have implemented this in WP for Windows.

--Chris
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