Juliusz Chroboczek writes:
> a filter between a tty and a pty that intercepts ISO 2022 sequences

Cool! This will help to not complexify xterm for a feature that
doesn't help users in India or Vietnam.

> But then, we already have the necessary mapping tables in the form
> of font encodings.  Font encodings should be loaded lazily, so that
> you don't pay for encodings you don't use.

You also have the mapping tables in libc, accessible through iconv().
Only the names are different: JIS X 0208, use EUC-JP. iconv() also
has the property that you don't pay for encodings you don't use.

Bruno
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