Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Robert de Bath <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Nowadays because a real VT100 is pure 7 bit and anything with the 8th
> bit set would generate a parity error character it's a perfect base for
> any 8 bit character set including UTF-8. This has been proven time and
> again with every character set out there to the extent that the imaginary
> '8bit VT100' is the actual standard terminal.
>
Actually, it seems that the "actual standard terminal" has gravitated
to the VT220. Why the VT220 and not the newer ones I have no clue of.
-hpa
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