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8-bit chars

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From: John Stracke
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 14:41
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>and additionally, the "meta bit" concept should go away. This way
>8-bit chars can be made first-class citizens.
[...]
>What do you Epoch people think, shouldn't this (or something similar)
>be put into Epoch?

Perhaps as a compile-time option.  But being able to press Alt-f
instead of Esc-f saves me a *lot* of trouble; I'd hate to give it up.

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