Re: XTerm and ISO-2022

[Tomohiro KUBOTA]

Hi,

At Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:51:52 +0000 (GMT),
Robert Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there any advantage over Xterm supporting ISO-2022, over w3m supporting
> UTF-8?

(1) ISO-2022 is free from 'mojibake', as I wrote.
(2) ISO-2022 is free from Unicode's overreaching CJK han unification.
    (bad legacy from mess 16bit Unicode.)
(3) ISO-2022 code space is wider than Unicode.
(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.)

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