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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Snappy Icelanders (this ALED mess)
Message-ID: <3311@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 27 Jun 91 10:03:48 GMT
References: <4472@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <3289@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3474@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <3474@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>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.

Ok.  Once more:

I downloaded Aled.
I uudecode and zoo it.
I tried entering a sentence that contains our icelandic letters.
I got the 7bit ascii ok.
I did *not* get the icelandic charcters.
I tried entering them with the alt-numberic-keypad trick.
That worked.
I decided that I did not want to spend my time, entering our icelandic 
characters with the alt-numberic-keypad trick.
So I posted.

>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.

So it preserves the 8th bit.  So what?  It does *not* allow me to enter
my icelandic character in the standard way.

I have sent email to the author, and since it hasn't bounced (yet) I hope
he got it ok.
:-)


Now.  Let us close this discussion and start taking notices of the 8th bit
(and sometime in the future, bits 9-16 as well.)


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Surgeon Generals warning:  Masking the 8th bit can seriously damage your brain!!