Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: understanding vi Keywords: vi ex 8bit international Message-ID: <1076@maxim.erbe.se> Date: 4 Jan 90 17:18:38 GMT References: Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jarfalla, Sweden Lines: 17 In article , ludo@uts.amdahl.com (Ludo Vennekens) writes: 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 ? Not as far as I know, at least not in SysV R3.1. But as soon as you hit Return or Escape, the octal gobbledygook should become the real 8-bit characters. Just make sure the tty driver is set to cs8 -parenb -istrip and it should work. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB