On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> (1) ISO-2022 is free from 'mojibake', as I wrote.
How come?
> (2) ISO-2022 is free from Unicode's overreaching CJK han unification.
> (bad legacy from mess 16bit Unicode.)
Would support for plane14 language tags make you happy?
(Note : this is not a promise to implement them).
> (3) ISO-2022 code space is wider than Unicode.
You are right here. Unicode has only a million or so spare code points.
> (4) ISO-2022 support is easier for the current implimentation of w3m
> than Unicode. (I don't know about the internal of w3m; this is
> what the w3m developer said.)
That doesn't sound like a very convincing reason, you can just stuff all
output through a 2022 -> UTF-8 converter. Don't see any reason for this
to be in the terminal itself...
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