Ardith Hinton wrote to James Bradley, "Techie Stuff?" on 09-06-05 13:42

 AH> 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.


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

Maybe I meant to say NC. Who is also the only BBS in town that I can
 (up/down)load from. 

 AH> BTW...

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

That's so over my head...

 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. 


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

Like you say, there is a name for the dot over an "i" or
"j". Just
don't ask me what in the-hill I'm talking about. 

 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!


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

I told you you had *attributes!*


 JB>  hold the  key, while entering the number?
 AH>           Yup....

Ah, that's how I remember them. The last I heard about it, was some
techs talking about high ASCII bombs, that should only strike us mere
mortals. The smart ones, can filter it apparently.



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



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


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

Shees... I just pound on the keyboard, and call the BBS now and
again. A couple of Russians were flabbergasting me with "code page"
this, and "alternate character" that. 

This reader allows for an alternate character set, but the plumbing
- For the lack of a better term - aint in place. While the world
turns, I just keep being amazed at its direction and fervour.



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