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ddawson@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Dick Dawson) writes:

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>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.

Well, some of us in Sweden use the old (at least 8 years old) standard
that replaces "a-diaresis" with "{", "a-ring" with "}" and
"o-diaresis" with "|". Normal rules apply to convert from/to UPPER.
Usually when I encounter "swedish characters with their high bit
stripped" they appear as "d", "e", "v" and that makes for fascinating
problems in reading them.

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+ Ingvar Mattsson    + I would like to be a fish, for they have no problems. +
+ Vasav{gen 83       + You are not a fish, how do you know about their mind? +
+ 175 32  J[RF[LLA   + You are not me, how do you know what I know?          +