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accented ISOlatin1 characters in doc

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From: Stuart Pook
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:12
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I have just installed the InterViews that is distributed with the X11R5
tape (Interviews 3.0.1, I think).  I am on a Sun Sparc running SunOS
4.1.2 and used Sun's cfront 2.1.

I use xmodmap to map some ISOlatin1 accented characters to some of the
function keys, for example:

	keysym F9 = eacute
	keysym F11 = agrave

When I use these function keys in idraw all goes well: the accented
characters are displayed and printed correctly.  However when I type
eacute in doc I get a large (2 characters widths maybe) space and
when I type agrave I get a new line.  When I save the file the line
contains:
	\begin{document}
	Je suis n\37777777751 \37777777740 Paris%
	\end{document}

When I read the file back into doc I get:
	Je suis n77777751 77777740 Paris.

Note that I see exactly the same problem when I add the accented characters
(351 and 340) with the "Special->Other Character ..." menu option.

Is InterViews supposed to work with the ISOlatin1 character set or are
we stuck with US ASCII?  Perhaps there is some problem with sign
extension of chars on Suns?  Is this problem known?  Is it fixed in
InterViews.3.1-beta?

Regards
Stuart Pook
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From: stuart@genethon.fr (Stuart Pook)
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Subject: accented ISOlatin1 characters in doc
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