Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:07:10 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console | |
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> I think it would be a major lose to move away from ISO 6429 format;
>> the format is self-terminating and really isn't all that complex.
>
> What do you mean by self-terminating? There is no easy
> synchronization like in UTF-8, given you are anywhere inside
> a text stream, how do you know (a) you are already in an
> escape sequence and (b) how to figure out the rebegin of
> normal text.
(a) isn't readily supported (other than scanning backwards), but (b) is
pretty easy, see ISO 6429.
-hpa
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