Hallo Sean!

 SD> Yeah, just modify jpico, joe's emulator of pico. ;)

That would be too easy.  Besides that isn't what I asked, but now that you 
bring it up I get the impression that it is my system that has to supply a 
working version of joe in the first place.  If that is so then it seems to me 
that somewhere there is a configuration for it somewhere in mbse that might be 
open to replacement of joe with nano which I know for a fact can handle utf8 
characters.  I am not too sure about joe but I suppose I can easily find out if 
indeed I must supply the working copy that mbse will then use.

Are my above assumtions valid?  In the meantime I'll have a looksee at joe to 
see if there are any utf8 issues no matter which emulation.  I already know 
that I'll be sticking with vim for everything I do that requires an editor.  
Nothing beats it.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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