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german characters (e.g. �, �, �)

Hi Guys,

I am working with a system whereby messages are being transferred into a UNIX box (which contain these german characters) and the message needs to be read by a script. But the box doesnt understand these german umlaut characters e.g. � , �. What happens is that they get changed by the unix server (before being passed to the script) to something like � = %D

My questions is this - how can i get my unix box to understand these characters and allow them to be passed through without being changed?

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gtkada-dialog

GTKADA2-DIALOG(1)					    GtkAda 2 programming manual 					 GTKADA2-DIALOG(1)

NAME

       gtkada2-dialog - Display a GTK+ dialog box from the command line.

SYNOPSIS

       gtkada2-dialog [dialog_type [justification]]

DESCRIPTION

       gtkada2-dialog  displays  the contents of its standard input in a GTK+ dialog box.  This is the version supplied with GtkAda version 2, and
       it uses GTK+ 2 widgets.

OPTIONS

       dialog_type
	    The type of dialog box desired.  Possible values are:

	    warning	 A message box with an exclamation point.

	    error	 A message box with a red stop sign.

	    information  A message box with an "information" sign: white "i" on blue background.

	    confirmation A message box with a question mark.

	    custom	 A message box with no pixmap and a user-defined caption.

       The default type is information.

       justification
	    The type of justification desired for the text of the message.  Possible values are justify_left,  justify_right,  justify_center  and
	    justify_fill.  The default is justify_center.

COPYRIGHT FOR THIS MAN PAGE

       This  man  page	has  been  written  by	Ludovic Brenta for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, from information given by the GtkAda authors
       Emmanuel Briot, Joel Brobecker and Arnaud Charlet.

       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby  granted,  provided  that  the
       above  copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documenta-
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Debian GNU/Linux						    25 Nov 2003 						 GTKADA2-DIALOG(1)

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