Re: Adjusting terminal via ISO 2022 to locale encoding

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

JS> Well, soemtimes there's a need to change the encoding of the
JS> terminal during the lifetime of the terminal.

JS> Korean xterm "Hanterm" [...]  its support of UTF-8 is limited to
JS> [...] KS X 1001

That's a red herring.  In an ideal world, you'd be running a single
UTF-8 terminal emulator with support for a large subset of Unicode,
and you'd never need to switch encodings.

The only reason to support ISO 2022 is for compatibility with legacy
applications.

                                        Juliusz

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