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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Termcap question
Keywords: termcap
Message-ID: <12230@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Feb 90 18:51:45 GMT
References: <5658@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5658@star.cs.vu.nl> gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Vos G P) writes:
>A short question: How do i get characters >127 in the termcap strings?

Encode them as octal escapes, e.g. \377.

However, it is quite probable that the high bit will get cleared
somewhere along the way before it reaches the terminal.  There are
several opportunities for this to occur...