Below is a post from Gerhard that illustrates *exactly* why [OT]
threads should be permitted on the list.  Some of them are very
valuable!  I have been using computers since before the 8080 days,
and didn't know how about selecting with or without the leading
zero to choose oem or ansi.  I gained one more bit of useful
info from this one [OT], and I'll bet that many others did also.
The *one* thing that should be banned on the net is censorship!
 - - - Nick - - -

Peter Crowcroft wrote:
<snip>
> Am I the only one reading this list who thinks the piclist is turning into
> a Usenet newsgroup? Last week it was Muslims, now it is americans who have
> never been to asia and seen 'ugly americans' first-hand or heard of  the
> book or even seen the Marlon Brando & Kukrit Pramot film. Interesting stuff
> but NOT on the piclist.
> Opinions?

>> Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>> At 18:16 03/24/99 -0500, Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>> I am too lazy to look for the difference, but I know that if you
>> type (on a very idle time) all the 255 combinations using
>> ALT + 0nnn (four digits number starting with zero), it shows
>> a different character set from ALT + nnn (without the zero).

>>> alt+nnn uses extended ascii (oem), alt+0nnn uses ansi. use a table, it's
>>> faster :)
>>>
>>> ge