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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Re: Printing characters
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Date: 29 Sep 89 14:44:00 GMT
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> [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).