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Upon reading the explanation of message cataloging by
Mitchum DSouza yesterday, the ever lasting 8-bit transparency
problem came to my mind again:

	Today, most UNIX kernels are 8-bit transparent (e.g. Linux
	and HP-UX, to take two I'm using in my daily work). UNIX
	programs, however, are still 7-bit. This seems to be true
	for almost everything, from the standard shells to grep,
	egrep, agrep and sort (GNU Emacs being a noteable exception).

Hints and information from the insoft community about how to recompile
various software items for 8-bit transparency to be used with standard
international character sets (latin-1, etc) would be very much
appreciated. Since I am a non computer scientist with limited (but
hopefully developing) knowledge of UNIX and C, even explanations of
'obvious things' would be needed.

Please direct your answers to arne.larsson@ntc.nokia.com; I will then
post a detailed summary to the insoft list (to relief the burden on Jeff).

Arne
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