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Re: French (8bits) chars with InterViews

#287
From: Mark Linton
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:38
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In article <9204091343.AA28818@imag.imag.fr>, arrouye@IMAG.FR (Yves Arrouye) writes:
|>   InterViews is apparently unable to display diacritic chars, such as
|> accentuated vowels, neither can it read them from the keyboard, even after the
|> invokation of xmodemap. Is that due to the use of signed chars, and how is it
|> possible to change that ?

You should be able to turn on the 8th bit with the meta-key, and this should display
(presuming the font has the characters in question).  If you have an example
that doesn't work right, please send it to interviews-bugs.
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Subject: Re: French (8bits) chars with InterViews
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