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[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello Bill,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM an All am 04.08.97

BB> Registered trademark and copyright are
BB>
BB>         (R) = ®
BB>         (C) = ©

this only works if you exactly know the character set of the user's machine as
 it is no more than a work-around for the (officially) non-existing high bit.

From my archive:

<!-- *********************************************************  -->
<!-- This file contains entity declarations for the accented    -->
<!-- characters in IBM Codepage 437 mapping them to the ISO     -->
<!-- names as defined in Goldfarb pp506 et seq                  -->
<!-- *********************************************************  -->
<!ENTITY dash    "&amp;dash;">
<!ENTITY mdash   "&amp;mdash;">
<!ENTITY hellip  "&amp;hellip;">
<!ENTITY point   "&amp;point;">
<!ENTITY amp     "&">
<!ENTITY sp      "&amp;sp;">
<!ENTITY odq     "&amp;ldquo;" -- open direct quote -- >
<!ENTITY cdq     "&amp;rdquo;" -- close direct quote -- >
<!ENTITY onq     "&amp;lsquo;" -- open nested quote -- >
<!ENTITY cnq     "&amp;rsquo;" -- close nested quote -- >
<!ENTITY dq      "&amp;dq;" -- undifferentiated quotemark -->
<!ENTITY shy     "&amp;shy;">

<!ENTITY  aacute "&amp;aacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  acirc  "&amp;acirc;"   >
<!ENTITY  aelig  "&amp;aelig;"   >
<!ENTITY  Aelig  "&amp;Aelig;"   >
<!ENTITY  agrave "&amp;agrave;"   >
<!ENTITY  aring  "&amp;aring;"   >
<!ENTITY  Aring  "&amp;Aring;"   >
<!ENTITY  auml   "&amp;auml;"   >
<!ENTITY  Auml   "&amp;Auml;"   >
<!ENTITY  Ccedil "&amp;Ccedil;"   >
<!ENTITY  ccedil "&amp;ccedil;"   >
<!ENTITY  cent   "&amp;cent;"   >
<!ENTITY  eacute "&amp;eacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  Eacute "&amp;Eacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  ecirc  "&amp;ecirc;"   >
<!ENTITY  egrave "&amp;egrave;"   >
<!ENTITY  euml   "&amp;euml;"   >
<!ENTITY  florin "&amp;florin;"   >
<!ENTITY  fourth "&amp;fourth;"   >
<!ENTITY  half   "&amp;half;"   >
<!ENTITY  iacute "&amp;iacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  icirc  "&amp;icirc;"   >
<!ENTITY  igrave "&amp;igrave;"   >
<!ENTITY  iquery "&amp;iquery;"   -- inverted questionmark -- >
<!ENTITY  iuml   "&amp;iuml;"   >
<!ENTITY  lgmt   "&amp;lgmt;"   -- left  guillemet -- >
<!ENTITY  ntilde "&amp;ntilde;"   >
<!ENTITY  Ntilde "&amp;Ntilde;"   >
<!ENTITY  oacute "&amp;oacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  ocirc  "&amp;ocirc;"   >
<!ENTITY  ograve "&amp;ograve;"   >
<!ENTITY  ouml   "&amp;ouml;"   >
<!ENTITY  Ouml   "&amp;Ouml;"   >
<!ENTITY  peseta "&amp;peseta;"   >
<!ENTITY  pound  "&amp;pound;"   >
<!ENTITY  rgmt   "&amp;rgmt;"   -- right guillemet -- >
<!ENTITY  schwa   "&amp;schwa;"  -- really a beta -- >
<!ENTITY  uacute "&amp;uacute;"   >
<!ENTITY  ucirc  "&amp;ucirc;"   >
<!ENTITY  ugrave "&amp;ugrave;"   >
<!ENTITY  uuml   "&amp;uuml;"   >
<!ENTITY  Uuml   "&amp;Uuml;"   >
<!ENTITY  yen    "&amp;yen;"   >
<!ENTITY  yuml   "&amp;yuml;"   >


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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