Jim Agenbroad asked: > Monday, March 18, 2002 > Is ISO 2022 a character set (characters with their codes) or a complex > (painful?) means to announce and negotiate among various sets? I thought > it was the latter; am I missing something?
ISO 2022 is a framework for character encodings -- it defines all the C0/C1 G0/G1 portions of bytes for character encodings, and how combinations of them are defined, and how escape sequences are used to switch between character encodings. But yes, it does not define any particular character encoding per se. In a Japanese context, however, the terminology is often blurred, since 2022-JP is widely used in Japanese email, and constitutes a particular configuration of character encodings making use of the 2022 escapes for switching. --Ken
