Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: UNIX, PC's and NeXT's .. Message-ID: Date: 27 Jan 91 02:57:17 GMT References: <1991Jan24.213926.18899@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <$77Gx-=5@cs.psu.edu> <2676@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is's message of 25 Jan 91 23:09:04 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: client3.cs.psu.edu In article <2676@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes: To continue the discussion about NeXT. Does the NeXT support character that have the 8th bit set? (would it support Icelandic, where we *need* 10 extra lower case characters and 10 extra upper case characters in addition to the 'standard ASCII' (insert evil grin here) ?) I have heard that the NeXT doesn't support the 8th bit. Is that true? Version 2.0 of the operating system does, and it's shipping on all new machines so it's not vaporware. -Mike