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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi & non-ascii characters
Keywords: vi, ex, ascii
Message-ID: <2863@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 3 Mar 91 13:16:20 GMT
References: <1959@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1959@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> boogaard@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Martin vdBoogaard) writes:
>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.

YALMT8B program (yet-another-let's-mask-the-8-bit program :-(


(are there no :set options that might help?)


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