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Re: National characters in texts

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From: Rainer Klute
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 15:46
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In article <wfEnStG00WoiMIG2hW@andrew.cmu.edu>, rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
(Robert Andrew Ryan) writes:
|> Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 30-Dec-92 National characters
|> in texts Rainer Klute@ucbvax.Berk (642)
|> 
|> > What annoys me is that typing a national character (i. e. a German
|> > umlaut) in, say, ez crashes the application. Is this regarded as
|> usual
|> > behavior, could it be due to my unusual installation, or did I miss
|> > anything in the documentation?
|> 
|> This is certainly not normal behavior.  Which version of Andrew are you
|> using?  (5.1 is the latest public release)  Check that
|> $ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar exists and contains the single readable file
|> comps.    It should start out like below...

I am using Andrew 5.1, and $ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar/comps looks fine.
Meanwhile I gathered some disk space and built the Andrew configuration:
same behaviour. I just started another built with MK_BASIC_UTILS defined in
order to get this console application.

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Subject: Re: National characters in texts
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