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- From: heisen@convex.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Henner Eisen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Does X11R5 supports 8 bit characters ?
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:16:35 GMT
- Organization: Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf
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- >In our SVR4 X11R5 environment we are having some difficulties
- >mapping key codes to character values > 127.
- >[...]
- >According the xterm manual it should be able to handle 8 bit chars.
- >[...]
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- xterm does, but its default stty settings (at least within our ESIX V4 / XWIN
- System) cause the 8th output bit to be stripped. In that case the command
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- stty -istrip
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- will help.
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- --
- Henner Eisen
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