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DateSat, 29 Mar 2008 17:03:08 +1030
FromDavid Newall <>
SubjectRe: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
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.


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