Greetings, everyone!

I've discovered a "feature" (read a bug) in the latest BS Plus firmware: if one 
is writing in ASCII in the word processor with 8-dot mode turned on, sometimes 
8-mode gets turned off when an uppercase letter is followed by a punctuation 
mark such as a semicolon. An example will illustrate this. I keep a blood 
glucose and insulin dosage log in a flat file, writing in ASCII with 8-mode on 
so I needn't worry about braille translation problems when odd character 
combinations are encountered. A line in the file might look like:

1130: 108; 15H; Lunch; Peanutbutter sandwich, ice tea; 30G

I've noticed that sometimes when I write the "H;", 8-dot mode gets turned off 
and I must turn it on again. It doesn't always happen and I haven't figured the 
"necessary and sufficient" conditions for this anomalous behavior to occur yet.

Fun and games!

Mike Freeman

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