Re: What prgorams choke on 8 bit

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From: Jim Moore
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1985 16:08

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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....

In the case of path names, the UNIX kernel refuses to accept and 8 bit
character set. System Vr2 returns EFAULT if an attempt is made to 
create a file whose name contains a character with the high bit set.
4.2 BSD returns an EINVAL in the same case.

Jim Moore
MIPS Computer Systems
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Subject: Re: What prgorams choke on 8 bit
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