Dearest GNHQ

Ah - so it wasn't brain failure on my part - that's a relief

Ooh - accents seem to be back at any rate!

café

How do you do accents?

merlot, the only one I can do easily on my PC is the acute - if you have an AltGr key on your keyboard hold that down while typing the letter you want to be accented.

The same as you would on any typed document, merlot - you go to the computer's character map and type in the code for the whole letter complete with accent. For instance to type El Niño, you hold down the alt key while typing 0241 to get the ñ. For the common acute accents you just need to hold down ctrl+alt+e to get é or with an a to get á, with an i to get í. This, of course, is all in MS Windows. If you're on an iPad or kindle, I'm afraid I have no idea, sorry

Oh yes, the altgr key, I forgot that one! Thanks Ana

Let me try-!!

When I copied and pasted a bit from somewhere it came out like this:

"Rob Williams, of the National Shop Stewards Network said: ??The victory yesterday by Jeremy Corbyn has changed everything. The vote we saw yesterday was a political revolution. We must build a mass movement against austerity and the anti-union laws.
??The message must be simple ?? 'Cameron: we are going to take you down. Your anti-union Bill and your cuts, you??re going down because we are mobilising against you??.
??If this goes into law, we want mass coordinated strike action.??"

Question marks where there should have neen quotation marks.

Sorry late replying.

Ignore the content of course.

Thanks, Ana and Indinana.

é ö

Yup - it is the double quote marks that are coming out as ??

"Is it?"

Perhaps it's only if you copy and paste from the internet?

"double quote marks"

Those are Ok now. £££ so are those pounds signs. Have they fixed it?

?? ?? -

Long dash, middle-sized dash and short dash comes out as ?? ?? -

And no, HQ, it isn't my 'device' that's causing the problem because I used to be able to do long dashes in posts on this very same 'device'.

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I don't seem to have a middle-sized dash!