On 2019 Apr 08 16:02:48, you wrote to me:

 ml>> alt-161, 0xA1 in the CP437 table?

 MK> Are you sure you're not thinking about c1 control codes that range from
 MK> 0x80 to 0x9f?

yes, i'm very sure that i'm not thinking about c1 control codes... at least not
 "control codes" per sé... but it looks like i grabbed the wrong one in my
post... below is the one i was thinking about...

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/FidoN...

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[...] while "soft line breaks" inserted by automatic processors (which were
supposed to be ignored in favor of reformatting the text at the recipient end)
were stored as hex 8D. [...]
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0x8d  0x00ec  #LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE

i should have selected the other one with the left leaning accent above it...

  ""

not sure how that will come out because it is being interpreted as a two byte
character here 

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