What prgorams choke on 8 bit

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From: Dave Brower
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1985 06:04

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What UNIX programs are you aware of that have major problems with 8 bit
character sets?  One that comes quickly to mind is the Bourne shell,
which uses the 8th bit as a tag.  I suspect that vi/ex will also have
problems.  This would be a good forum to itemize the programs, the
problems and the solutions that can be used as work-arounds.

-dB

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