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4.3 Using Special Characters like Umlauts or Cyrillics - The Charset Kludge

Languages other than English often use special characters besides the normal alphabet. Examples are the accented letters in French or the umlauts in German, or the cyrillic alphabet used in Russia and elsewhere. IBM block graphics are also called special characters. This section will describe what measures have to be taken in order to be able to transmit special characters via Fidonet.