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Re: Fwd: Cincinnati Enquirer
> >As far as I know, on AOL you can use the ASCII codes Alt + 129 for the
> >lowercase 'u' with the umlaut and Alt + 154 for the uppercase of the same.
> >Which one is the tzet?
>
> Except that fun stuff like umlauts and accents ague are all extended 8-bit
> ASCII characters, and a lot of the world's email servers are limited to the
> original 7-bit ASCII standard. Just another one of those things you really
> shouldn't do. ;-)
IIRC, the AOL e-mail server recognizes 8-bit. At least in-house. So
Thdreamgal at aol_com would benefit from a print out of ASCII codes for all
those extra characters-- for all the e-mails she sends to her AOL friends.
I'm using all your technical terms like I know what I'm talking about. I'm
really just a 2-bit mimic.
jnf
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