Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: console.c | | Date | Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:47:50 +0400 (MSD) | | From | Konstantin Kivi <> |
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:38:07PM +0400, Konstantin Kivi wrote: > > > > > > Hello All ! > > > > I have no idea, who is > > responsible for console.c in kernel/drivers/char/ > > so I will write to this list. > > > And this is absolutely correct: ANSI/ISO standard declare _ALL_ > characters between 0x80 and 0x9f as C1 control characters. Unfortunately > for you M$ tends to ignore standards. The character in question is > called "CONTROL SEQUENCE INTRODUCER" or CSI and is the eight bit equivalent > to ESC [ (or rather ESC [ is the 7bit equivalent of CSI).
M$ is my to the same degree as it is yours. Your answer just give M$ another chance to win (or to Win ;-) and I think it is short sighted . For first time users of linux this will only prevent them from using it.
> Use the appropriate ISO encoding for your console and have a tool > recode the texts in question (GNU recode or iconv come to mind). > Oracle for linux, for example, doen't support koi8-r encoding which is the only one correct for my language from your point of view.
I don't know any program that exploits this standart, and as long as there will be no way to switch this off at run time I will have to recompile the kernel. And many people will just use M$ instead of linux.
As for ANSI/ISO they have plenty of beautiful standards.
> > Yours, > Dominik Kubla > --
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