[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <02218112-3ac8-4bb5-b406-50e559226c93 at r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, jcwoman1963 at hotmail.com writes:
[...]
>Since it sees that first  =E9    as hex e9, does that mean it's not
>truncating the high order bit, or still is?

The question is, how is your terminal configured? If the terminal is sat to
7-bit, you'll hex output will be different from what you actually see.

Regards,
  Christoph Gartmann

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