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To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
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Subject: Re: Any reason for no ostrip? 
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In message <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su>, Yar Tikhiy writes:
>All,
>
>I've been missing the ostrip terminal option for quite a while.
>Frankly, it is of use mostly to Cyrillic users because our main
>Unix encoding, KOI8, has a funny property: It can be readable if
>mapped to US-ASCII by stripping the high bit, so if you happen to
>land at a terminal w/o Cyrillic support, you still can read your
>mail if you manage to strip the 8th bit off.  Unfortunately, far
>from all terminals, hardware as well as software, have an option
>to strip the 8th bit.  Since we have istrip already, adding ostrip
>would be just complementary.  Any objections?

Couldn't you get the same result with cs7 and space parity ?

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