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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Reliability of Unix utilities: interesting article in CACM
Message-ID: <1990Dec07.195153.7278@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 7 Dec 90 19:51:53 GMT
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heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson) writes:

>This is confirmed by the failure of so many utilities to cope whith my
>8-bit character data (Icelandic coded in ISO-8859/1, which is classified
>as a sort of 'random 8-bit junk' in some languages :-(

i heard Sys V R4 tries to fix those. what unix did they test, actually?!
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