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From: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: 8-bit character disply in ELM
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.111749.482@dg.se>
Date: 10 Jun 91 11:17:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.161149.13603@infonode.ingr.com>
Sender: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson)
Reply-To: robert@dg.se (Robert Claeson)
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In article <1991Jun6.161149.13603@infonode.ingr.com>,
shelley@b11.ingr.com (Shelley R. Heard) writes:

|> Can elm handle 8 bit characters.  Or is it too generic to
|> try?  From time to time I send mail with letters such as the
|> Spanish ene (n with a ~ over it) and elm substitues the letter
|> 'q'.  The octal value of ene is 361 and of 'q' is 161.
|> Is there a way to make elm send all 8 bits to the terminal?  I
|> would olny be sending such mail to machines that have the same
|> extended ascii character mappings as mine.

I have no problems using 8 bit character in ELM. Just make sure that you
answer
"yes" to the question in Configure that asks you whether your system has
a "safe"
isprint() function (this assumes that you're using a System V-ish
system) and
that you have the following System V stty settings set: cs8 -parenb
-istrip.
Your terminal must also use 8 bit character, of course.
-- 
Robert Claeson

Just because I am writing this doesn't mean that my employer agrees
with me.