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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <4089@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 91 22:19:04 GMT
References: <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <3245@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
| 
| I am sorry to say it, but that tiny editor, ALED, that was posted to
| c.b.i.p some time ago, goes straight to the waste basket!!!!!
| 
| Why?  It does not allow me to type the Icelandic characters as I would
| normally!!!!   Instead I have to remember their ALT numbers and use the
| ALT-numeric-keypad trick to enter them.
| Which is *NOT* good enough for our twenty special icelandic characters!!!

  I thought it left all 8 bits alone in the file. You may have to use
sequences to enter them, but the problem could be that whatever maps
your keyboard is not mapping for the editor. Not having the icelandic
character set handy I didn't check. I'm familiar with icelandic
characters, some post to usenet ;-)
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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