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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Can "vi" handle chars above 127 ASCII?
Keywords: vi ascii 8 bit character set
Message-ID: <1100@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 22:45:07 GMT
References: <18473@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> <739@ecrcvax.UUCP> <9723@alice.UUCP>
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Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <9723@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes:
>>...  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.

The HP-UX version of 'vi' correctly handles 7, 8 and 16 bit characters
and has done so for many HP-UX releases now.  I use it all the time
to produce documents in Swedish (I use 'vi' as a word processor..!)
and get the correct national Swedish glyphs displayed on the screen
as well as the correct ASCII codes (127-255) on the file.  The HP-UX
'vi' even knows about case shifting with '~' for those characters.
Very neat!


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