In article <5658 at star.cs.vu.nl> gpvos at cs.vu.nl (Vos G P) writes: >A short question: How do i get characters >127 in the termcap strings? Encode them as octal escapes, e.g. \377. However, it is quite probable that the high bit will get cleared somewhere along the way before it reaches the terminal. There are several opportunities for this to occur...