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From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
Summary: MKS vi supports 8bit characters
Message-ID: <537@mks.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 14:46:20 GMT
References: <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <8804@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4002@homxc.UUCP> <380@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <380@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
< In article <4002@homxc.UUCP> gauss@homxc.UUCP (E.GAUSS) writes:
< >An author friend that I work with, Eb Colville, has been trying for a
< >number of years to find a VI editor that will handle the German characters
< >available in the extended ASCI characters on his MS-DOS  PC.  He used those
< >in his novel, THE LAST ZEPPELIN, which is trying to find a publisher.  Whatever
< >the talk, it does not seem to be possible to do this.  Extended ASCII
< >requires the full eight bits to be available, and all VI's that we have
< >seen simply toss away the lead bit folding umlauted characters into
< >control characters.
< 
< The "vi" in System V Release 3.1 handles 8-bit characters. 
< Unfortunately, I don't know if anybody's ported it to MS-DOS....

MKS vi also handles 8-bit characters if you set an option.