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.