24 Jun 15 23:37, you wrote to me:

 ml>> most likely what happened in Ed's case is that the system he uses
 ml>> converts ""high ascii"" characters... even
if he had used the proper
 ml>> character in his reply, the bbs would likely have replaced it when he
 ml>> uploaded his posts...

 EV> I'm wondering if the Greek Mu micro character I entered in an earlier
 EV> message got out O.K.?

no, they did not... they were filtered and converted...

 EV> Did either one of You see it?

i did not see them on any of my systems...

 ml>> FWIW: in this system, i can't enter any codes (above or below 128) by
 ml>> using the ALT-keypad method... at best i have something called
 ml>> "compose" which i've seen others talk about using
when the write
 ml>> characters like . and .... i used to enter those via ALT-keypad but
 ml>> not any more :(

 EV> Here goes again typing Alt 230  ...
 EV> I did it 3 times, anyone see it?

i see three dots... looking at the raw PKT on my main system, there are
also three dots... 0x2e or ALT-46... sbbs systems can filter and convert
characters >=128 to 7bit and it seems that the system you are using is
doing that... i don't recall if it is a user setting or a system setting,
though...

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