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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: vi ascii 8 bit character set
Message-ID: <9723@alice.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 15:28:04 GMT
References: <18473@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> <739@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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>...  I think the next (or the following ones) major releases
>of SunOS and System V are supposed (among other things) to fully support 
>8 bit character sets.

As I recall vi in System V r3.2 handles 8 bit characters.
This does *not* imply that it can be used as a binary editor though.
Line length is still limited.

Paul.
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