This gets dreary. I can do what Mick says and it looks fine to me - send it to Mudcat and one day it looks okay, another day looks Japanese, another day punctuation marks, another day the wrong letters. The ampersand codes last better. The ~{(.~}(as I read them today)in my message above was written as accented letters using the short cuts; the letters I wrote with ampersand code do appear as they should.
curious to see what the short cut characters appear like today from a different computer: á, é, å (the last one is done in alt key plus numerical code, no ampersand)