[Info-vax] 8-bit characters

[Michael Moroney]

On 11/11/2021 12:45 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <smhnmj$2d8$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:

>> to handle
>> UTF8 or anything else outside the DEC-MCS range of characters. If you
>> need that, simply use modern tool from the last 20 years or so.
> 
> I don't expect anything more than MCS.  I'm just wondering why in a
> DECterm it is sometimes displayed correctly and sometimes not.
> 

If you're talking about how EDT behaves, it's because EDT was 
inconsistent whether that character position was printable or not, if 
not printable it treated it much like a control code (displaying it as 
<Xnn> )  See my other reply.