Re: Adjusting terminal via ISO 2022 to locale encoding

[Bruno Haible]

Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:

> Thus, I don't understand why it is important for the ISO 2022
> parser to support UTF-8, Big5, and so on, because these encodings
> will be supported by -lc mode of XTerm.  ISO 2022 parser is
> important only for encodings which are not supported by iconv()
> or libiconv.

Yes. Furthermore, there are no such encodings for which ISO 2022 would
be the exclusive solution, because all encodings that are in real use
today are supported by glibc iconv() and libiconv.

Bruno
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