Bram Moolenaar wrote on 2001-02-16 11:30 UTC:
> But what if the termcap file is in UTF-8 itself, do the raw bytes then get
> converted to UTF-8 another time? Or is the interpretation of the bytes
> stored, and then converted to UTF-8 only once?
You can use "\302\233" to represent in /etc/termcap UTF-8 encoded CSI
(U+009B) while keeping the file itself completely in ASCII.
Perhaps some good soul even wants to extend termcap to have two new
special codes for added convenience:
\c = \233 (CSI in some ISO 4873 conforming character set, e.g. ISO 8859)
\C = \302\233 (CSI in UTF-8)
I don't think you want to use any non-G0 characters apart from LF in a
termcap file. It's just too much hassle to edit/print/mail these across
systems.
Don't even think about horror scenarios such as character encoding
conversions on termcap entries ... :)
Markus
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