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From: bicker@hoqax.UUCP (The Resource, Poet of Quality)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VI fails on German language
Message-ID: <1042@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 08:53:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoqax.1042
Posted: Fri Aug 14 08:53:50 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 02:41:39 EDT
References: <1370@houxf.UUCP>
Organization: Semantic Engineering Center
Lines: 22
Summary: VI s*cks

In article <1370@houxf.UUCP>, egauss@houxf.UUCP (E.GAUSS) writes:
| 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?
| 

Yes. Use emacs.

If your at AT&T (which, by your machine id, it seems you are), most
machines have, and all machines can get the orignial emacs. If not
there are numerous net versions: Micro Emacs and so forth.

BK