Jeffrey Altman wrote on 2001-05-26 18:31 UTC:
> I do not believe it is a good idea to tie the keyboard input
> processing to the state of the ISO 2022 tables for the host to
> terminal direction. You certainly do not want to tie it to the
> current values of GL and GR.
Thanks for the summary.
DEC terminals only have keyboards for input. These are harmless, because
only a very simple character repertoire can be produced on them.
Terminal emulators have a far more powerful input device: cut&paste
selection from other applications, sophisticated input methods for
languages not covered by a single GR set, etc.
I'm not sure, whether DEC practice scales well here. (Actually, the only
thing that scales well is stateless UTF-8 everywhere, but doesn't help
Juliusz who seems to want to write an ISO 2022 terminal emulator, but
probably should just stick to a slightly extended kterm emulator.)
Markus
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