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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Snappy Icelanders (this ALED mess)
Keywords: (Not only snappy Icelanders but others as well)
Message-ID: <3474@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 14:11:50 GMT
References: <4472@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <3289@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <3289@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:

| Humm.  Aled used the 8th bit as some sort of an internal marker.  THEREFORE
| rendering it Useless for Me and other Icelanders and other Euoropeans....

  Interesting. The original report complained that he had to use the alt
trick to enter characters, implying that Aled preserves the 8th bit
nicely, just as the author claimed.

  Could it be that you're confusing the freemacs editor, which did use
the 8th bit as a marker, or just echoing something you heard as if you
had tried it? Aled seems to preserve the 8th bit nicely, although my
only copy is on a machine which may never rise from the dead, so I can't
try it again.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
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