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From: NR Phillips
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 15:23

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     I'm becoming hopelessly confused by the interaction between an online
     service, my comms software and EndNote in deciding how a foreign
     character eventually gets represented.

     Example: Our library system (Libertas, running on a VAX - telnet to
     blpes.lse.ac.uk & logon as LIBRARY). I come up with an author such as
     MULLER, where the U should have an umlaut.

     (1) If my comms package (Kermit) is set to 8-bit characters, the
     U-umlaut is received as ASCII 220.

     (2) In the Kermit manual, 220 is U-umlaut in the Latin-1 character
     set, but even if I select this character set it just displays as an
     upside down U on the screen.

     (3) In EndNote, 220 is a completely different character.

     Can someone make some illuminating comments before my head explodes?
     Is it a hopeless dream to expect to download foreign characters from
     any old online system and have them be properly represented in both
     Kermit and EndNote?

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     | Nick Phillips                                           |
     | IT User Support Officer                                 |
     | British Library of Political & Economic Science         |
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