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From: hmm@unido.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Are the funny letters really needed?
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 17:24:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 17:24:00 1986
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Nf-From: unido!hmm    Feb 13 22:24:00 1986

Right now, I'm using an Atari 520 ST to write this response.
We have plenty of them at our university as terminals.
This neat machine is delivered with a national keyboard only,
which is a real hassle for us.  We are used to the american
layout and character set (Imagine a C program with umlaut-a
and umlaut-u as left and right brace).  So we have patched the
bios of the atari to generate the 'right' keycodes and have put
little sticker with the 'right' characters onto the keycaps.
Not the real thing, though.  They loosen after some time and
have to be replaced (especially the often-used ones, like /?).
So much about national keyboards...

	Hans-Martin Mosner <hmm@unido.uucp>
	University of Dortmund