Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amdahl!ludo From: ludo@uts.amdahl.com (Ludo Vennekens) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: understanding vi Keywords: vi ex 8bit international Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 90 09:44:16 GMT Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20 Hi, I am confused about vi's 8bit capability. I was using vi on a vt230 with a Danish keyboard, and get (octal code) displayed when I type one of the danish national characters. Is there a way to make it understand that this is indeed a printable national character and have it returned without turning it into gobbledygook ? As it turns out all of these characters need 8 bits to be represented, and vi seems to preserve the eigth bit, but does not know if displaying it is ok as far as I can see. I am by no means proficient in C, so the source for vi did not get me any answers because of the volume of code and the slow line I have. -- Ludo J. M. Vennekens (408) 737-5074 Drums..More Drums .....{pyramid,seismo,hplabs,sun,uunet}!amdahl!ludo [English : People at Amdahl speak for themselves on the net] [Dutch : Mensen van Amdahl spreken voor zichzelf op het net] [French : Les gens d'Amdahl parlent pour soi-memes sur le reseau] [German : Die Leute von Amdahl sprechen fuer sich selbst auf dem Netz] [Esperanto: Homoj ^ce Amdahl parolas por ili mem sur la reto]