From: a.lawrence (alawrenc@sobeco.com)
Date: 10/04/92


From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Subject: Re: NEW: Support for Canadian French (CF) Keyboard
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:50:00 GMT

In <1992Oct5.013308.21682@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:

>BTW, is Linux 8-bit clean? What about bash? For example, can I
>modify keyboard driver to use 8-bit chars, and then have 8-bit char
>file names?

From what I have seen so far, characters greater than 0x7F are rejected
at the shell prompt. I don't know yet if this is bash, or the cooked
I/O routines. I suspect the latter.

There are no problems entering extended character codes with vi, but
joe seems to accept only 7-bit input.

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