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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: vi ascii 8 bit character set
Message-ID: <2328@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 3 Aug 89 17:46:27 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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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.

The one in S5R3.1 does, and the one in the next SunOS minor release
(i.e., 4.1 - the next major release would presumably be called 5.0) is
based on the S5R3.1 one and as such should support 8-bit character sets. 
(It did when I tried it, anyway....)