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

[pg]

In a recent note, address@hidden said:

> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:57:34 -0500 (EST)
> 
> > vi "supports" them by printing a multi-char hex value (like 0xe7) 
> > and positioning the cursor appropriately when navigating the file. 
> 
> depends on the vi (you're using bsdi, which is probably nvi 1.46 or something
> like that).
> 
... and Solaris's vi does something incredibly stupid.  It shows,
for example, the NBSP character (=160) as "\040".  I can only conjecture
its logic is, "I see this is a non-ASCII character, so I must format
it as an escape sequence -- but wait -- first I must clear the parity
bit before formatting it!"

-- gil