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>Further problem: I haven't found any way to get to any useful code
>pages from any application, esp where needed, eg: in a text editor. 
>Sure, I can re install moststupiddos for another country.  Therefore
>trashing my whole file system.  What I need is a switch on the fly
>system, or, better, European characters available at any time by some
>simple key combination.
>
>Any help available?
>
>No moststupidwindows please.

Thanks, all around...   Since I posted this request I've gotten
several helpful responses.

In msdos 5.0, there is a file KEYB.COM that will invoke the keyboard
layout and appropriate code page for one country other than the
installed country.  <alt><F1> and <alt><F2> will toggle the two setups
while in Wordstar, at least.  This might not be available in
Wordperfect as it already assigns <alt><Fn> to other functions.  This
begins to resolve some of my needs although there are bugs.  The
settings for Norway and for Denmark to not yield o-slash or O-slash;
they provide a c with broken verticle bar (cents sign) and a Y with
double cross bars, probably a yen sign.  This might be a glitch in my
video card.  But at least I've got a start.  Thanks again for the
help.

Another interesting bit:  Some news postings have various punctuations
in the places of Scandinavian characters that do not exist in the
American alphabet.  I don't remember the equivalences.  They always
show as the puncutations, curly braces, vertical bar, etc, on my
terminals and on the Xerox 4075 laser printer I usually use.  No
surprise, as the data links at Syracuse Univ. are all 7bit.  Except,
apparently to a HP Laserjet/Postscript printer... where the actual
Scandinavian characters appear, about half of the time.  I'm guessing:
some writers are substituting US punctuations and probably are on
machines that can't generate Scandinavian characters but others are
apparently using machines that actually do create Scandinavian
characters and are sending them in postings; they appear as US
punctuations when the high bit is stripped.

I'm still after the ISO 16bit (I hope) _standard_.

Dick   ddawson@mailbox.syr.edu