30 Jun 15 09:23, you wrote to me:

 ml>> accented characters are easy to do with the "compose"
method... as i
 ml>> noted, they are not in the same position in the character table any

 HG> It's not as easy as finding them on the keyboard just a keypress away.

kinda true... apparently many over in europe use them on a normal basis...
i don't recall if i specificed the method previously or not but they use
their "compose" key as a modifier... IIRC, this
"compose" key is generally marked as ALTgr... so they hold ALTgr
and then the first part of the sequence is hit... still holding ALTgr, the
second part of the sequence is hit... it is about the same as holding the
ALT key and hitting the two or three numbers on the numberpad... from what
i can find, the "compose" method is more limited and restricted
to alphabetical characters... you also have to hit the characters in the
proper order...

example:
  ALTgr+"+o works for o umlate ”
  ALTgr+o+" does not work

same for those letters with ^ ~ and ' above them...

 ml>> more... only if CP437 or CP850 are used for the most part... the
 ml>> problem is that linux doesn't use those old code pages any more...

 ml>> the main thing i miss is easily being able to see and use the line
 ml>> and box drawing characters we've used for our bbs menus and ansi
 ml>> drawings... that is the greatest loss at this point...

 HG> Those characters are also used in my BBS. All of them are not
 HG> available on CP850 but CP437 has a full set of them.

yeah, that's what i was trying to say... not having those character glyphs
available make things really ugly... especially mail stats messages that
may have bar graphs in them...

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