On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:39:56AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > I have been looking into the standards behind i18n on Linux (I'm > interested in writing a Unicode terminal emulator implementing > ECMA-48/ISO-6429, and also being backward compatible with current > emulations). From what I can see, there are several standards which > must be at least partially implemented underneath/alongside ISO-10646: > > ISO-646 (ECMA-6) > ISO-2022 (ECMA-35) > ISO-4873 (ECMA-43) > ISO-6429 (ECMA-48) > > which I have obtained from ECMA as PDFs. There are also > > ISO-1745 - basic mode control procedures > ISO-2375 - registration of escape sequences (required for exit to > UTF-8 mode with no return); the registrations are available > online, but each must be obtained separately > ISO-7350 - registration of graphic characters > ISO-10367 - standard 8-bit graphics character sets > ISO-10538 - control functions for text communications > > and probably others I haven't realised I need yet. To obtain these > through the ISO (or BSI) would amount to a lot of money (several > hundreds of GBP), which I can't afford since I work on GNU/Linux in my > spare time. Is anyone aware of any other bodies which publish these, > or any other way of obtaining copies? (The local libraries don't > stock them, and the British Library didn't have them on its catalogue > either.)
The Linux console is vaguely similar to such standards, but there are lots of differences. Looking at the standards will teach you very little about Linux. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
