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 |
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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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