Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  Re who else posted this evening, see ENGLISH_TUTOR....

JB>  I'm not sure, but I don't think my NEC caries the echo.


          Who is your NEC?  Bob Seaborn (140/1) carries it.  Most SysOps I
know are quite willing to add echoes if somebody asks for them, at any
rate....  :-)

BTW...

          Caries = decay of teeth and/or bones.  :-))



JB>  What is a half an umlaut, now that we are on the target?

AH>  You mean a single dot placed over a letter??  I don't know.
AH>  Apart from the letter "i", of course, I've seen it only in
AH>  dictionaries as a pronunciation symbol indicating a short
AH>  vowel.  There's a circle over a capital letter "A" in my
AH>  ASCII chart (ALT 143).  I wonder which language uses it...
AH>  Ukrainian, maybe?

JB>  Maybe I saw it in the dictionary pronunciation. 


          Quite possibly.  Some dictionaries use the dot, some don't....  :-)



AH>  If it looks like a peaked roof, as in "table d'hote" (ALT
AH>  147), it is a circumflex.  If it looks like

JB>  Ow... You're good!


          Thankyou.  I studied French for seven years....  :-))



JB>  I forget now how to display those high ASCII codes. Do you
JB>  hold the  key, while entering the number?


          Yup....



JB>  I tried that with this Linux, and it only inserted blank
JB>  spaces.


          Aha!  See below....



AH>  half of a circumflex and goes upward from left to right, as
AH>  in "nee" (ALT 130), it's an acute accent.  If it looks like
AH>  half of a circumflex and goes downward from left to right,
AH>  as in "tres" and in "blessed", (ALT 138) it's a
grave accent.
AH>  I notice we're both using IBMPC 2, BTW....  ;-)

JB>  Wow... I couldn't tell you if I *was* using IBMPC 2, or *not*.
JB>  How the Dickens's Pub can you tell from there?


          I thought you were using IBMPC 2 when I saw it in some of your
kludge lines.  I now realize it's visible only when I've copied your
messages from the echo to my own writing area, however... so I may be
seeing it because I'm using IBMPC 2!  I don't see any accent marks in the
above when you're quoting back to me what I typed, from which I conclude
you're not using the same character set.



JB>  Sheesh... I'm outa my league!


          Me too.  All I know about Linux is that people seem to either
love it or hate it.  I see people using IBMPC 2 with various message
editors... looking in the echoes, not in my writing area... but Linux may
identify it differently. Dallas tells me the term "character set"
(CHRS) could be relevant in your case. In my case, IIRC, there's a toggle
in the message editor which allows me to add characters such as common
accent marks from western European languages....  :-)




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