In a message on Wednesday 11-26-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mike,

> Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as
> the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

If I enter Alt-247, I get the '÷' double tilde, the single '~' I have
available on the scandinavian keyboard, and checking the keyboard maps
of various US keyboards, it seems also to be available on all of them by
'Shift-key left of the 1 key' on the top row of the main keyboard.

I cannot understand why entering the same code on each side of the pond,
gives different characters, unless you use another code page than 437.

> Dunno, what operating system you use.

MP> OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit,
MP> both for DOS.

Oh, SLMR is long ago forgotten here. I use, as you can see, the MR/2 QWK
reader, and QEdit for OS/2, alternatively The Semware Editor, DOS vers.

As an alternative QWK-package I have MultiMail, also configured to use
QEdit/2.

I really do love the MR/2 QWK package.


Have a good night,

Holger


.. Speed kills so run Windows.
-- MR/2 2.30


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