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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: X/Open vi
Message-ID: <1841@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Jun 89 20:17:51 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >    Fine.  I'd like a nice, neat way of typing control-A and ESC
 >without twisting my fingers in knots, characters I need to type far
 >more often than "god damn foreigner names."  Internationalized
 >keyboards don't tend to provide this capability, which was the point I
 >tried to make.

The problem of control and ESC keys, and of internationalized keyboards,
are separate.  Some vendors have either eliminated the ESC key or put it
somewhere other than e.g. to the left of the (! 1) key; they may have
done so to match some international standards.  However, it is *NOT*
necessary to do this for US keyboard layouts; other vendors have
internationalized keyboards that, at least in the US layout, don't stick
ESC off in the hinterlands or put an extra key between Shift and Z, for
example.