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Article #11Re: What prgorams choke on 8 bit
From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1985 22:23
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1985 22:23
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> What UNIX programs are you aware of that have major problems with 8 bit > character sets? I'm pretty sure emacs (pick a version) expects that it will be able to use the 8th bit to represent meta-characters. Actually, emacs uses a 9-bit character set (so you can have such things as Control-Meta-Return). I have no idea what all the ramifications of this will be, but I suspect it might get messy. I can see it now -- Joe Emacshacker swoops down on an unsuspecting luser and floors him with "Hey, there's a better way to do that. You can save 2 keystrokes by just doing Control-Top-Meta-Danish_O_Umlaut!" :-) -- Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy> System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What prgorams choke on 8 bit Message-ID: <516@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 18:23:33 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.516 Posted: Wed Oct 9 18:23:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 21:54:59 EDT References: <687@rtech.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 16