Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote elsewhere, in a message to David Drummond, about character codes. Most of the accent marks I'm playing with here are still used in English, albeit with diminishing frequency as the years go by:

N: 130 (Hex: 82) �

e acute

R�sum�, fianc�, pass�, blas�, souffl�, retrouss�, recherch�
Gasp�, Pouce Coup�, and other Canadian geographical names
(on my keyboard the number pad is accessed by holding down
the ALT key, thus e acute e.g. is ALT_130 on my code page)

N: 135 (Hex: 87) �

c cedilla

Gar�on, soup�on

N: 136 (Hex: 88) �

e circumflex

"Plus �a change, plus c'est la m�me chose."

Years ago I sent the above to Andy Manninger, founder of the
ENGLISH_TUTOR echo, as one of a series of test messages. It
didn't occur to me then that I might want to be able to read
the Cyrillic alphabet later. It didn't occur to him either,
although he'd studied Russian at school. Meanwhile I wanted
to be able to communicate in English, French, German, and/or
Spanish. With IBMPC 2 I can see characters such as the � in
Bj�rn's name (or some approximation thereof) when others are
using IBMPC 2, Latin-1 2, or CP850 2 & I can read the accent
marks which Roy uses in CP437 2 as long as he has typed them
himself. The reason I've qualified my statement about CP437
is that I'm leaning heavily on notes I made over a year ago,
before a couple of European sysops found errors in their own
configuration files! IOW... when an accent mark is quoted &
requoted by various writers almost anything can happen. :-Q

N: 137 (Hex: 89) �

e umlaut, di(a)eresis, or whatever it's called in Swedish

Chlo�, Zo�... i.e. female given names used both in English &
in Greek. The accent mark indicates the pronunciation, just
as it does in my other examples.

N: 138 (Hex: 8a) �

e grave

Belov�d. We don't always pronounce it that way in English...
but in songs & poetry the accent mark may be used to indicate
the author wants it treated as a two-syllable word. The same
applies to "bless�d", which may also be spelled "blest".

N: 139 (Hex: 8b) �

i umlaut, di(a)eresis, or whatever it's called in Swedish

Na�ve, na�vete or na�vety

N: 148 (Hex: 94) �

o umlaut, di(a)eresis, or whatever it's called in Swedish

Bj�rn
Co�perate, if you want to spell it that way. I prefer to use
a hyphen to separate the "o's".

N: 155 (Hex: 9b) �
N: 156 (Hex: 9c) �
N: 157 (Hex: 9d) �

Cent(s), pound(s), yen... no problem. I can read, quote, and
reproduce to my satisfaction every example I've tried so far.

N: 128 (Hex: 80) �

�a va bien aussi. Thankyou.... :-)




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