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From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: X/Open vi
Message-ID: <32661@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jun 89 21:56:26 GMT
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In article <193@iclswe.UUCP> lars@iclswe.UUCP (Lars Tunkrans) writes:
>It is probably not trivial to find a version of an 8-bit version of vi
>that will run on your system. American computer manufacturers mostly forget
>that there are other languages than English in the world.

    This is not neccessarily a bad thing, from my point of view.
DEC's incredibly brain-damaged LK201 keyboard may be partially
attributed to internationalization. I have not the least interest in
non-English keyboards and wish they had kept American users in mind in
this case.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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