🚀 go-pugleaf

>    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.

Sounds like the symptoms I saw when bringing up the S5R3.1 "vi" for
SunOS 4.1, which I was doing precisely because it *could* handle 8-bit
characters....

The problem turned out to be either that 1) it hadn't yet been modified
to use the ANSI C "setlocale" routine (AT&T invented their own
internationalization routines for S5R3.1, we used the ANSI C interfaces
instead) or 2) I hadn't set LANG or set up a default language to pick the
ISO Latin #1 character set.  1) wouldn't apply on a vanilla S5 system,
so I suspect the problem is 2); you have to set CHRCLASS to refer to a
file specifying the settings for the CTYPE(3C) macros for ISO Latin #1 -
the default is ASCII, and S5R3.1 seems to supply *only* a file for
ASCII, not for ISO Latin #1 (I had to make up such a file for SunOS
4.1).

Unfortunately, since they don't, in fact, supply such a file in S5R3.1,
you may have to make one up yourself and compile it using the "chrtbl"
utility (which I *hope* they documented), and then point CHRCLASS at it.
Various of their national language environments for European countries
may come with such a file, but I don't know if they have a Danish
version....