On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:48:47PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> David Starner wrote on 2001-02-02 18:51 UTC:
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:11:40PM +0000, Robert Brady wrote:
> > > 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...
> >
> > Does anyone know of a general 2022 -> UTF-8 converter?
>
> You mean for *all* coded character sets in the ISO 2375 International
> Register of Coded Character Sets on <http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/>?
> That would be a quite huge conversion table that I don't think has
> ever been implemented by anyone. And even that would be incompatible with
> the de-facto ESC sequences used today in the so called ISO-2022-?? Internet
> implementations. The entire ISO 2022 thing is really a mess.
I think recode implements much of it.
keld
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