Heill Patrick!
you wrote:

>In a message dated 2/11/01 4:47:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, keth@...
>writes:
>> r¬…’Ä¢a. (1)
>>
>> ˆ…llum m’Äìnnum skal me’Ä¢ l’Äìgum r¬…’Ä¢a. (2)

Did my message really look like that at your end?
That's bad news for Mac users. But when I go into yahoogroups,
I think it looks like it should. I'll try to check it from
a Windows machine as well.


Your machine has somehow managed to produce 3 characters out of 1.
You have for exampe transmitted:

’Äì

What I see is 3 chars: 1: a comma, 2: an uc A with umlaut, 3: a lc i accent
grave.
But when I sent it out, it was just one char: a lc o-umlaut.
The first and last char here look like some kind of quotation marks
that I haven't seen before. You also send the message in 2 parts.
first ascii and then html. Here is what it *should* have looked like:

Öllum mönnum skal með lögum ráða. (2)

We were asked to look at the file "otail.doc" in the group's file
area. What do *you* make of that file when you download it from
the norse_course file area?

>> In form (1) the non-ascii chars are Hex(E1) and Hex(F0), which
>> represent the middle two letters in "rˆ°ˆƒa" (='to govern' and
>> related meanings). Also the last letter in "meˆƒ" is represented
>> by Hex(F0) (= same as 3rd of rˆ°ˆƒa). However, in (1) the first
>> letter of "ˆñllum" is represented by the ascii-char Hex(51) =
>>
>I've kept quiet on all this until now because honestly, I hadn't finished
>with last yr's project to start working more than superficially with the
>course.
>However, now that starting tomorrow I will be putting my full energies to
>the course I feel I have the right to speak up.
>I'm a beginning language student. This is my first REAL attempt at another
>language other than my native language. I'm also 40. Some of the discussions
>lately
>have made me discouraged before I really start. For the last couple of yrs
>I've been reading the poems of the Codex Regius in parallel with a good (IMO)
>English translation and felt pretty good about myself about what was picking
>up of vocabulary and grammar. Not so any more...
>Troth,
>PTD

What did you think of lesson 1?

><BR>ˆ…llum m’Äìnnum skal me’Ä¢ l’Äìgum r¬…’Ä¢a.  (2)

I hope we can solve the problems, or I'll have to revert to pure ascii.
Earlier I did have the impression that my computer was transmitting
things just normal. But now I am beginning to doubt.


Best regards
Keth