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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world!
Summary: 8 bit ascii
Keywords: 8bit uEMACS
Message-ID: <7350@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 88 16:30:35 GMT
References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <126@dcs.UUCP> <920@infbs.UUCP> <345@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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	There has been a lot of talk about problems with 8 bit
characters in various programs and editors.  I had many comments about
this problem in the last couple of years about MicroEMACS 3.9 (although
it was 3.6 and 3.7 at the time) and I fixed it to handle transparently 8
bit characters quite some time ago.  So, entering high byte characters
from the keyboard using the alternet key works properly. Also keys can
be set up like the following:

store-macro-21
	insert-string &chr 130
!endm
bind-to-key execute-macro-20 FN^R

	This causes an e with an acute accent to be inserted when the
alt-e combination is struck.

	My problem now is this.... How do I determine how such a
character should be treated when converted to uppercase.  Not knowing
the different languages involved, could someone in the know post such
info?  Does it vary from language to language?  How are characters like
this treated on UNIX machines of different sorts.  Rather than bemoaning
the USA's programmers lack of attention, could someone tell us what is
the right way to handle things like this?

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