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From: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?
Summary: the real vi is 8-bit compatible
Keywords: vi, 8-bits, international
Message-ID: <4552@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 17:34:06 GMT
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Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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<< >There are usually good reasons for masking the eighth bit,
<< No, there aren't.
< Yes, there are.  The one point I haven't seen yet is the fact that *real*
< vi masks the 8th bit.  If you're writing a clone, you do your best to do
< *exactly* what the original does ...  not matter how stupid it might be.

Thay may have once been true, but it's true no longer. The vi that comes
with System V release 3 and later is 8-bit transparent. The ONLY character
that vi still doesn't like is the NUL (^@) character; those are still
stripped.

					Tony Hansen
				att!pegasus!hansen, attmail!tony
				    hansen@pegasus.att.com