Re: ANSI escape characters

2005-08-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: I'm only wondering why Lua writes the string "\027..." to the screen, with the same effect. Can it have something to do with the encoding? (ascii, iso-8859-1, unicode) No. In all these charsets := 27d, 0x1b, 033o. Therefore the reason can only be that Lua doesn't conve

Re: ANSI escape characters

2005-08-03 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Nick Glencross wrote: Nick Glencross wrote: Klaas-Jan, 'Escape' is 27 decimal, or 033 octal. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9381 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9814 Nick I may have been overly concise! What I meant was that \0xx notation is octa

Re: ANSI escape characters

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Glencross
Nick Glencross wrote: Klaas-Jan, 'Escape' is 27 decimal, or 033 octal. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9381 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9814 Nick I may have been overly concise! What I meant was that \0xx notation is octal, and so \033 is Escape.

Re: ANSI escape characters

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Glencross
Klaas-Jan, 'Escape' is 27 decimal, or 033 octal. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9381 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/9814 Nick Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: hi, I'm not very familiar with this, so forgive me for my ignorance with this. I don't know whether

ANSI escape characters

2005-08-02 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, I'm not very familiar with this, so forgive me for my ignorance with this. I don't know whether this issue is related to Parrot, or that it's something else I don't understand. I read a bit about ANSI escape codes, and I'm wondering if this should work in Parrot. That is, when writing the