Path: utzoo!censor!isgtec!robert
From: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert A. Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Why does 'stevie' mask the 8th bit ?
Message-ID: <337@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 17:38:53 GMT
Reply-To: robert@isgtec.UUCP (Robert Osborne)
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <1591@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>Programs that mask the eight bit are, in my opinion, useless junk.
>Unfortunately a number of American programmers does not seem to have realized
>this yet.  Even well-known PC programs like dBase are not flawless in this
>respect.

In article <1589@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>YOU, AMERICANS: WAKE UP.  Not all of the world is happy with the 
>7 bit 'American Standard Code Information Interchange'
>
>We *NEED* the 8th-bit software.  So in the future PLEASE allow for 8-bit
>characters.  (Optionally maskable for those stray terminals that go haywire
>when presented with an 8-bit character.)

Why don't you two guys stop your bitching, pool your money, and ship
some 8 bit systems to the guys who wrote/maintain STEVIE.  Why do you
expect somebody who is doing YOU a favour by suppling a PD vi to
go out of their way to support YOUR language;  one they probably
don't even speak!  Better yet, shut up,  make the necessary changes
for 8-bit support and send the diffs to the maintainer!

If you don't like commercial products that do the same thing bitch
at your supplier or at customer support.  Or don't by them.

Yessh!
Rob.
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Robert A. Osborne   {...uunet!mnetor,...utzoo}!lsuc!isgtec!robert