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From: boogaard@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Martin vdBoogaard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: vi & non-ascii characters
Keywords: vi, ex, ascii
Message-ID: <1959@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 1 Mar 91 14:08:31 GMT
Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of Physics
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When I read a file containing a few accented characters into
vi's buffer, the editor complains about non-ascii characters
(reasonable) and converts them into ascii characters (less reasonable).
I guess this has something to do with 7-bit character processing.

Is there a workaround for this?


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