How to input non-printing characters in mlterm

[Avraham Rosenberg]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:22:02PM +0300, Avraham Rosenberg wrote:
>...
> 
> Actually answering the question in the subject line: can you try the
> command-line option --viaucs (or through the configuration window:
> "Encoding => Process received strings via unicode") ?
> 
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Hi,
First, thanks to you and to all those who answered.

I guess you meant that, instead of starting the mlterm shell with the usual
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He UTF-8 mlterm" -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black ,
I should try to use 
LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C mlterm --viaucs -D=false -E UTF-8 -T "He UTF-8 mlterm" -g 120x25+0+0 -w 24 -o 5 -bg WhiteSmoke -fg black

and then try the
catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/[CtrlVx80-CtrlVxff]//; /^[   ]*$/d' | view -
or
catdoc Desktop/L_9_27_06_2010.doc | sed 's/CtrlVxa0//; /^[   ]*$/d' | view - 

I tried it and got only question marks (but the offending character had been
removed). I captured the output in a file u. Then "file u" gave "ASCII text".
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