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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: curses 8 bits
Message-ID: <32364@servitude.mips.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 14:29:44 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1989Nov14.181722.8266@sobmips.UUCP> laporte@sobmips.UUCP (p.laporte) writes:
>We are using curses to do screen handling and need to use the 8 bits
>to represent french characters. Our sreens are vt220 (NCR4970). 
>Our problem is that curses always strips the eight bit. Has anyone
>succeded in convincing curses to accept and output the full 8 bits of
>the characters. (raw is not sufficient).

The RISC/os release 4.0 curses library, based on the SVR3.0 version, is
*not* 8-bit-clean.  The version included in the about-to-enter-alpha-test
release 4.50 is derived from SVR3.2, and allows full 6-bit character
support.  This will be released during the first quarter of 1990.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE      MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.      phone: +1 408 720-2939
928 E. Arques Ave.  Sunnyvale, CA  94086                        rogerk@mips.COM
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