On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:02:10 -0700 Stephan Stiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/30/2013 3:27 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: > > architectures that depended on swapping character sets (code > > pages) in mid stream > > I thought systems were usually married to a particular code page. I'm > wondering where (historically) you'd actually change to a different > code page mid-stream. ISO 2022 allows it. For historical reasons, the emacs input method definitions are full of such code switches. If you don't count such swiches as code page switches, then with a metaphorical meaning, browsers, e-mail clients and many editors can simultaneously handle files in different encodings. For example, emacs can simultaneously hold different files in 8-bit encodings without converting to a common coding. As a final example, the Windows command console can switch code page dynamically. Richard.
