Re: lynx-dev French accents (was special char's)

[Laura Eaves]

> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:01:54 -0800
> From: Michael Warner <address@hidden>
>...
> I'm not sure vi supports 8 bit characters, but I guess if it
> didn't, someone would have mentioned it by now.  Any way, my

vi "supports" them by printing a multi-char hex value (like 0xe7)
and positioning the cursor appropriately when navigating the file.

> suggestion is (was) to try out vim, which does have pretty good
> digraph support.  Configure it with digraphs enabled, and try 
>
>       :help digraphs
>
> See <http://www.vim.org>

Thanks, I'll take a look.

> As for the strange symbols when you cat'ed the mail to the
> screen, would it not have been decoded from Base64 or
> whatever?

It wasn't encoded to begin with.
--le