Accented Characters

[Chris Sharman]

>If you set ASCII8 in your dictionary and make sure that your terminal
>setting allows for 8-bit entry (SET TERM/EIGHTBIT) this should allow data
>entry of accented characters.  You may need to put your own character set
>with full accents into the dictionary. I'm not sure what  affect it will
>have on sorting of data.  

RMS keys will be in ascii code order, unless you use collating sequences.
These are detailed in the NCS manual, supported by RMS (and sort), settable
by FDL, and are intended for exactly this (ie, sorting aacute etc to be next to
a. Powerhouse won't notice the different RMS ordering. Powerhouse sort won't
offer that facility.

Chris

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