This posting is about the strictly limited case
where you're logged in to linux at the console
and do a d3 command then use the UPdate
processor {U editor}. It turns out the console
UTF-8 features negate the onscreen hints that
U provides while marking a block of text for
copy/paste operations.

I'm testing this using d3/linux 7.5.0 on rhel4 es

So, putting unicode_stop in your home .bashrc
might be handy. Of course then your man pages
look rotten {again, just at the console}as they use
unicode punctuation/highlighting or something, so
unicode_start is handy, too...

The good news is, you can turn off unicode even
while running the d3 process on that screen, and
it is durable even when you get out of the subshell
and back to tcl; so do
!unicode_stop
at tcl before you do the UPdate editor session...

....linux trivia -- you _cannot_ load the LPRng printing
package on rhel4. It needs a lib.so2 or something that
is no longer provided by the modern kerberos package.
Erm, the cups-enable command is your friend, now...