On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance:

EV>I just took a look at MODE /status and 437 is the Code Page setting.

 HG> Then it's really odd why you can't see the umlaut letters because
 HG> I'm also using (and have always used) CP 437 mainly because I get
 HG> the graphic box characters there but the umlaut characters are also
 HG> there. 

they may be being translated by the BBS software on the system he is
accessing... or it is possible that his reader is operating in native
windows mode (iso-8859-1) and the font that he has chosen simply does not
contain anything in that character's slot...

more information is needed to figure it out but it may not really matter, either...

)\/(ark