Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?

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From: Einar Indridason
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 12:35

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I just compiled 'stevie369a' and that went fine.  However I have got one
question:  Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit?  Here in ICELAND, (and other
countries in Europe), we need the upper half of the ASCII to represent all
our characters.  
Even if the real 'vi' does it, it doesn't meen that 'vi' clones must do 
that as well.

In the future, PLEASE don't MASK the 8th bit in software.  I did put the
icelandic characters in, but in the future PLEASE DON'T MASK the 8th bit.

(Otherwise it seems to be a great program.  Thanks for it.)


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Subject: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?
Keywords: Don't MASK the 8th bit !!!!
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Date: 14 Mar 90 12:35:23 GMT
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