[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2001-02-15 12:43 UTC:
> 1) Don't use CSI.
> I tend to agree - there is not really any reason to use this
> instead of ESC [. I wonder whether there is anything that
> uses it. Maybe it can just be removed from the kernel console.c.
The original idea might have been to save a byte, but that doesn't hold
any more with UTF-8, because both "ESC [" (1B 5B) and "CSI" (C2 9B)
require two bytes.
CSI should be considered deprecated and recommended practice should be
not to use it in applications.
Markus
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