abs@purplei.com wrote:
> 	Currently fmt strips any characters with high bits.
> 	This makes is pretty much useless for formatting (or centering :)
> 	european text with accented characters and suchlike. Its made
> 	harder by the fact you may be exchanging email or working with
> 	a file that has been sent by someone ina different locale.
> 
> 	Some options:
> 	      - Apply attached patch to allows characters > 127.
> 	      - Allow characters > 127 via option ('-8'?)
> 	      - Do nothing.

The right solution is to use correct locales - you can get 
iso-8859-1 ones from ftp.netbsd.org, I think the one at
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/locale.tgz should do.
There is also a PR #3693 about this exact issue.

Jaromir
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