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## Displaying Characters with the High Bit Set

There are several issues to consider here. The most important issue is how to get jed to display 8 bit characters in a ``clean'' way. By ``clean'' I mean any character with the high bit set is sent to the display device as is. This is achieved by putting the line:

          DISPLAY_EIGHT_BIT = 1;

in the `jed.rc` (`.jedrc`) startup file. European systems might want to put this in the file `site.sl` for all users. The default is 1 so unless its value has been changed, this step may not be necessary.

There is another issue. Suppose you want to display 8 bit characters with extended Ascii codes greater than or equal to some value, say 160. This is done by putting `DISPLAY_EIGHT_BIT = 160;`. I believe that ISO Latin character sets assume this. This is the default value for Unix and VMS systems.