Re: TECH: okay, I'm an idiot

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Fisher wrote:

> 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.
I'm using Pine's built-in editor, which acts a lot like pico. On
my office machine, I can type O-u, u to get u-diaresis (which
seems to be standard for the Mac) but this is what happens at
home for the same keystrokes: Ÿ. Also, there doesn't seem to be
any guarantee that, even when I type O-u, u for u-diaresis at
work, that that is what will show up when the message gets
posted to CONLANG.

I will definitely talk to the unix guru, but I don't think it
will help at home. I'll see what they say.

Thanks to all for your comments.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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