> >From: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
> 
> >Yup.  Sorry about that<rant> -- but really, these days, ISO 8859-1,
> >clearly marked as such with MIME headers, should be acceptable globally. 
> 
> Ideally yes.  But the VT100 character set just doesn't have most of those
> characters so I can't see them, not everyone is using a graphics scope where

Hmmmm, I'd consider _real_ vt100's retrocomputing. The last I've seen was in
use 1 or 2 years after 1989, but was eventually junked because it simply 
became unreadable.

It was replaced by some vt220-clones-+-Tektronix-Graphic-emulation.

vt220 DOES have "DEC Multinational", which is a bit older than latin-1,
and predicted 1 or 2 characters wrongly, but I don't know the details...

But it has always worked for the few German and french characters I've looked
at.

	-is