Displaying Characters with the High Bit Set

There are several issues to consider here. The most important issue is how to get jed to display 8 bit characters in a ``clean'' way. By ``clean'' I mean any character with the high bit set is sent to the display device as is. This is achieved by putting the line:

      DISPLAY_EIGHT_BIT = 1;

in the jed.rc (.jedrc) startup file. European systems might want to put this in the file site.sl for all users. The default is 1 so unless its value has been changed, this step may not be necessary.

There is another issue. Suppose you want to display 8 bit characters with extended Ascii codes greater than or equal to some value, say 160. This is done by putting DISPLAY_EIGHT_BIT = 160;. I believe that ISO Latin character sets assume this. This is the default value for Unix and VMS systems.