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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. It's not very useful being able to tell you are inside a escape sequence unless you see that sequence from the start. You do need the complete sequence to make sense of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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