Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:03:08 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console |
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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.
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