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From: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: 8-bit character disply in ELM
Message-ID: <1991Jun08.125018.25444@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Date: 8 Jun 91 12:50:18 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.161149.13603@infonode.ingr.com> <1991Jun6.171136.26330@DSI.COM>
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syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>Elm is 8 bit clean, and in 2.4 will even support LOCALE and NLS.
>There is one check, in the internal pager for printable characters,
>that on systems that sign extend chars may need to be anded with
>0xff. (2.4 contains that for all systems).  Note, that not all
>external pagers are 8 bit clean either.

if only the underlying unixes were as good, for instance interactive's
iscntl() will tell you that an 'sz' (sharp s in german) is a control
character, no matter what you define in the character class files,
so i had to dike it out. btw, less works nicely as an 8bit pager.

>The real problem, is that many intervening systems, use 7 bit chars
>and strip the 8th bit when they transfer the message.  Elm can do
>nothing about the MTAs either on your system, or on intervening systems.

just say no to sendmail...
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