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Hi, I am confused about vi's 8bit capability.
I was using vi on a vt230 with a Danish keyboard, and get <xxx>
(octal code) displayed when I type one of the danish national characters.
Is there a way to make it understand that this is indeed a printable
national character and have it returned without turning it into
gobbledygook ? As it turns out all of these characters need 8 bits to be
represented, and vi seems to preserve the eigth bit, but does not know
if displaying it is ok as far as I can see. I am by no means proficient
in C, so the source for vi did not get me any answers because of the
volume of code and the slow line I have.
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