Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!jim From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Printing characters Message-ID: <8909291444.AA17013@kanga.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:44:00 GMT References: <6328@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 12 > [asking about displaying 8th bit characters in xterm] Unfortunately, the R3 xterm from MIT has some bugs that prevent it from being 8-bit clean. Also, you have to make sure that you've done the appropriate stty command to set the terminal to pass 8-bit characters. Fixing xterm is relatively straightforward (several people posted suggestions about it several months ago): you change the definition of Char to be unsigned and rip out the silly loop in input.c that strips the eighth bit. The R4 xterm will support both input and output of 8-bit characters (yup, really "meta" characters in your non-X editors).