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From: tj@mks.UUCP (T. J. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VI fails on German language
Message-ID: <289@mks.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 11:01:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: mks.289
Posted: Mon Aug 17 11:01:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Aug-87 02:01:34 EDT
References: <1370@houxf.UUCP> <1042@hoqax.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 19
Summary: MKS vi handles accented characters

In article <1042@hoqax.UUCP>, bicker@hoqax.UUCP (The Resource, Poet of Quality) writes:
: 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.
: | ...
: | Does anyone have a fix?
: | 
: 
: Yes. Use emacs.
: 
Or use MKS vi, which properly handles eight-bit characters, including
the accented chars.
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