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    1. Special Characters
    2. COLIN ADOLPH
    3. Hi. Got the same problem with special characters as already reported.   Used to be OK, so something must have gone adrift.   Also it doesn't seem to contain o-e diphthong as is reqired for true transcription of Phoebe in a lot of cases.

    04/15/2009 03:48:38
    1. Re: Special Characters
    2. david mayall
    3. 2009/4/15 COLIN ADOLPH <[email protected]> > Hi. Got the same problem with special characters as already reported. > Used to be OK, so something must have gone adrift. Also it doesn't seem to > contain o-e diphthong as is reqired for true transcription of Phoebe in a > lot of cases. > As detailed at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/beginhelp.shtml Dipthongs (the most common being the oe of Phoebe) are typographical conventions, and should be expanded in full. Whilst we can work around most dipthongs that people might enter, the oe dipthong is a particularly problematic case, as it is impossible to correctly map it from the various character sets. Where transcribers go to huge lengths to get the oe dipthong into a file, it is a certainty that it will be mangled during upload, and will not achieve what was desired. -- Dave Mayall

    04/15/2009 05:03:30