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From: meisl@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Christian Meisl)
Subject: Answer: Where can I fond irregular ascii characters?
Date: 1995/05/19
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David Beegle (beegled@eosc.osshe.edu) wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I could find characters suucch as an "a" with an
> accent mark or an "n" with a tilde?  Any of the odd ascii characters for
> unix?  Any Help would be greatly appreciated.  
As far as I know those characters belong to the upper 128 characters in
the 8 bit ASCII-set. That's why there are problems if you transfer
files containing such characters (internet provides only the 7 bit ASCII
standard), so it is better not to use such characters.
BTW: I have the same problems with the german "Umlaute". If I use them
in a mail (I am working on a Unix-Station), my friends cannot read them
(they work on PCs), so I don't use them.


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Christian Meisl alias meisl@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at
Graz University of Technology, Austria
1. FTC Rot-Weiss Salzburg, Austria