Subject: Re: fmt and high bit characters
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/02/2000 23:35:27 
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Based on other feedback I've modified it to only pass highbit
> > 	characters >= 160.
> 
> Uh, I haven't followed this too close.  Why 160?
> (Will cat(1) pass only >160 now too?)

Look at the iso-8859-? specifications:
128..159 are control characters.

	-is