Subj : that trick never works To : Maurice Kinal From : mark lewis Date : Fri Apr 12 2019 16:34:22 On 2019 Apr 12 16:20:42, you wrote to BullwInkle Moose: MK> @CHRS: UTF-8 4 MK> @MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet 562f9614 MK> @PID: MBSE-BBS 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64) MK> @TZUTC: -0400 MK> @TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64) MK> Hey Bullwinkle! MK> Let's try this instead; A M????se once bit my sister ... nope... they're all question marks... MK> Offhand the above doesn't look promising. how are you entering the characters? on my box i had to specifically assign a modifier key to use so as to be able to enter ""blended"" characters... characters like “ ” and similar then i have to hold the modifier key and hit the " followed by the o for the ” character... i don't know what that system has to do to enter those characters since the old CP437 ALT-xxx model doesn't work any more... sean may not have configured that yet... i dunno... what i describe is what i had to do on a KDE GUI setup... MK> Life is good, MK> Maurice MK> Greetings, Maurice Kinal MK> --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.12 (GNU/Linux-x86_64) MK> * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200) MK> SEEN-BY: 15/2 18/200 123/1970 153/7001 154/10 20 30 40 700 203/0 221/0 6 MK> SEEN-BY: 226/17 227/400 229/107 354 426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 MK> SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 310/31 317/3 322/757 340/800 342/200 393/68 396/45 MK> SEEN-BY: 423/120 633/280 770/1 3634/12 116/116 123/25 150 755 135/300 MK> 153/7715 MK> SEEN-BY: 261/38 3634/15 27 50 123/50 3634/0 18/0 123/0 1/120 MK> @PATH: 18/200 229/426 280/464 154/10 3634/12 )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .