Re: TECH: okay, I'm an idiot

In message <38E283EA.979694FD@...>, John Cowan
<jcowan@...> writes
>dirk elzinga wrote:
>
>> With that subject heading, let me just get to the problem. I
>> want to use the characters with diacritics allowed by ISO-
>> 8859-1 in composing e-mail, but I don't know how to make them
>> print on the screen. I have my e-mail utility (Pine 4.05) set to
>> ISO-8859-1, so I know the characters are there, and I can see
>> them when y'all write them. I don't know how to do it myself
>> though. Aargh!
>
>This procedure assumes you have a PC running Windows.  If you don't,
>it may help someone else.
I suspect that as he's using Pine he's probably on a Unix system.  In
which case I suspect that the problem is not in Pine but in the editor
you are using to compose messages, whatever that is.  But all I can
suggest is that you talk to your local Unix guru about what to do about
it.

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John Fisher   john@drummond.demon.co.uk   johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk