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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?
Message-ID: <1590@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 20 Mar 90 23:03:00 GMT
References: <EMV.90Mar14145536@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1581@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <14602@s.ms.uky.edu> <3052@auspex.auspex.com> <14614@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
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In article <14614@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>
>|>There are usually good reasons for masking the eighth bit,
>
>|No, there aren't.
>

Right.  There aren't good reasons anymore for masking the 8th bit.

>
>I'd *love* to have a world standard, and to have a set of guidelines for
>meeting that standard. Until then, my software is not allowing 8-bit data
>to be shoved at terminals because only a small percent of terminals are
>going to be able to make sense out of it.


Use ISO 8859-1.  If your software is not going to allow 8-bit data, could you
then PLEASE make it optional (via #define'd constant or environment variable)
so the rest of us could use the full 8-bit?


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