Re: understanding vi

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From: Robert Claeson
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 17:18

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In article <d98Z02tC7avA01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, ludo@uts.amdahl.com (Ludo Vennekens) writes:

    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 ?

Not as far as I know, at least not in SysV R3.1. But as soon as you
hit Return or Escape, the octal gobbledygook should become the real
8-bit characters. Just make sure the tty driver is set to cs8 -parenb
-istrip and it should work.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB

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