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[Mike Salovesh]

Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:
>
> >The ç and í in the messages I've received look fine on my • (that's the
> >Apple symbol) iBook.
>
>   They look fine on my G3 as well.
>
> Rima

They look as they should on this old Compaq, too. I use an updated
Netscape 4.5 and Compaq's version of WIN 95 (original version, not
updated) on this machine.  I set the combination to run ISO-8859-1
(which ought to be standard ASCII).

For demonstration purposes, I've entered a series of extended characters
below.  My screen shows them as accented vowels, N with tilde, c
cedilla, upside-down question mark, etc.  They come through fine when I
send them in a message to my address on another ISP or to my secondary
address here at NIU. After I send and received messages containing the
extended characters, they print properly, too.

To produce these characters, I press and hold <ALT> while entering a
3-digit code.  A majority of those I've sent messages using extended
characters produced this way have no trouble reading them in the
meanings I intended.  A significant minority sees garbage, however.  I
don't know why there is a difference.

If the characters in the following table show on your screen as accented
vowels and other special characters, you may find it convenient to enter
extended characters the way I do.  To read the table, start at the left
and read over to the final digit.  (Example: in the series from 120 to
129, 128 is Ç.)

         0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9

120-129  x  y  z  {  |  }  ~     Ç  ü
----------------------------------------
130-139  é  â  ä  à  å  ç  ê  ë  è  ï
----------------------------------------
140-149  î  ì  Ä  Å  É  æ  Æ  ô  ö  ò
----------------------------------------
150-159  û  ù  ÿ  Ö  Ü  ¢  £  ¥  P  ƒ
----------------------------------------
160-169  á  í  ó  ú  ñ  Ñ  ª  º  ¿
----------------------------------------
170-179  ¬  ½  ¼  ¡  «  »
----------------------------------------
220-229              ß     ¶
----------------------------------------
230-239  µ
----------------------------------------
240-249     ±              ÷     °  •
----------------------------------------
250-259  ·  _   n  ²
----------------------------------------
270-279     ¤              ¶  §
----------------------------------------
         0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9

Blank spaces on the diagram are places where no new characters appear
when I try to insert characters corresponding to those numbers.
(Instead, I get underlines or asterisks -- YMMV.)

-- mike salovesh                    <salovesh at niu.edu>
PEACE !!!