Good morning, Charles.

 CA> It's not that those of us in the USA don't care. Speaking for
 CA> myself, I can't go looking for a key-code I don't even know exists.

  With TseJr. it is all there, up to 255.

 CA> Being an American I am monolinqual

  Not to worry, we can and do communicate. I only use two and feel bad as all
  my siblings are polyglot. My one brother speaks Fr, En, De, Sp and still
  communicates in latin.

 CA> I could tell it bothered him but when
 CA> you don't know you simply don't know. :-\ 
 
  If it bothered him, that is is problem.

 CA> I'm guessing you are referring to unicode? FIDO software is
 CA> (generally) unable to reproduce ASCII above 255

  Nope, only up to 255 here. All the BBSes that I accessed over the years did
  honour the 255 ASCII codes. Maybe before my time then the 128 and up were
  not recognized. I think that maybe the Commodore ones did not for a long
  while.

  Are we not happy with the fact that whoever started our system used letters
  to represent sounds and not icon / images as the orientals do, including
  the arabs, to represent words. Our way, we can use the same letters to
  write any of our languages. That little town in northen Judea, I forget the
  name, sure helped the world come up.

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