vi & non-ascii characters

[Einar Indridason]

In article <1959 at ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> boogaard at ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Martin vdBoogaard) writes:
>When I read a file containing a few accented characters into
>vi's buffer, the editor complains about non-ascii characters
>(reasonable) and converts them into ascii characters (less reasonable).
>I guess this has something to do with 7-bit character processing.

YALMT8B program (yet-another-let's-mask-the-8-bit program :-(


(are there no :set options that might help?)


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