latin-1

[florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (F. Neumann)]

Hi paleonetters,

Just a short note: most Western European unix machines use the latin-1
standard, which allow them to display special characters (with
accents, umlauts, etc) used by languages such as French or German.
Most North American unix boxes don't use latin-1, so messages
containing  such characters will be not be displayed correctly (e.g.
the e with accent grave is displayed as h, o with umlaut as \, etc.).

Cheers, Florin

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  Florin Neumann
  florin@quartz.geology.utoronto.ca