Diacritical marks lost on the net. How retain or recover?

[Stephen J Bungard]

In article <0099F8A3.B1762CC0.58 at CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>, HAROLD WM KERSTER
<kersterhw at CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU> writes
>     A colleague wants to publish a biblio on the net.  Many languages
>occur in the citations, so a few accents grave, etc. are present.  Transmission
>via the internet strips off the marks.  Can anyone suggest how to retain
>the marks or a way to restore them after transmission?
>     If you are interested in this problem, let me know and I'll pass to
>you any answers that seem workable.

The GAELIC-L list server uses eg a\ for a grave and e/ for e acute in
ASCII based e-mail.  It looks a bit of a mess but one gets used to it
and it does preserve the information concisely.  Furthermore, software
has been developed to translate this style back into accented characters
in word processing software.

However, it seems likely that not all the accents you need will be in
the ASCII set.

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Just a thought.


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