Re: Adjusting terminal via ISO 2022 to locale encoding

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> JS> However, there are people like me who want to switch between fully
> JS> ISO-2022 compliant encodings (which are not ISO-8859-x) and UTF-8
> JS> depending on the locale.
> 
> This is an issue which is currently of concern to me.  Which of the
> non-ISO 2022 encodings do we want to support?  Do they all preserve at
> least C0?
> 
>  - UTF-8;
>  - ???.
> 
> What escape sequences do you suggest they should use?
> 

You know there *ARE* ISO 2022 escape sequences assigned to
non-ISO-2022 character sets; they are divided into two groups: the
ones which can support the ISO 2022 universal return sequence and
those that cannot.  See the ISO 2022 charset registry.

        -hpa

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