DC>> For some reason, it appeared that it was fudged far
 DC>> more than normal.

 ml>> it wasn't fudged, reallly... what was seen was the HTML
 ml>> decimal number of the charater... the same thing that
 ml>> one would use when creating a webpage and one wants to
 ml>> ensure that all character sets accurately display the
 ml>> character in whatever character set the viewer is using
 ml>> in their setup...

 DC> Well, I am more DOS based!  Anyhow, I have seen strange
 DC> characters from HTML get imported into DOS OLRs.

i'm sure... you haven't done any HTML coding at all?

 DC>> Just for a test, how does this come through to you:   ”
 DC>> It should work, as it is ASCII 

 ml>> it comes thru just fine... however, others may see
 ml>> something else or nothing at all, depending on whether
 ml>> they have proper codepage/character set translations
 ml>> and/or some system strips the high bit off or even strips
 ml>> the entire character...

 DC> I know that there's some characters that liked to mess
 DC> with my printer!

those are low ASCII (less than 32 (at least)) control codes...

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