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From: egauss@houxf.UUCP (E.GAUSS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: VI fails on German language
Message-ID: <1370@houxf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 13:35:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: houxf.1370
Posted: Thu Aug 13 13:35:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 10:14:24 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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I have found a bug in VI that makes it quite difficult to process
German text which uses the IBM-2 character set.  This is the standard
screen character set for the AT&T PC 6300.  An umlauted U is mapped
by VI upon input into an end-of-file and the whole process stops.

The problem is that VI strips off the leading bit from eight bit
characters.  The umlauted characters requiring the eighth bit get
mapped into various control characters.  This can be coped with by
using a filter which un-maps them after VI but I have found no
way to process text that contains an umlauted capital U.

Does anyone have a fix?

Ed Gauss, 
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