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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Termcap question
Keywords: termcap
Message-ID: <671@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 90 09:50:26 GMT
References: <5658@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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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?

You may be able to get them 'in' using octal escape sequences,
but many applications don't get them 'out' to the terminal device,
because it's a common technique to strip the 8th bit on output.

Why? Because older hardware didn't make use of the 8th bit (or used it
as parity), there developed the convention to write '\200' in the
termcap string whenever a '\0' Byte had to appear in the output.
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Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83