From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "John T." <j.thomast@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:32:35 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F2CD1B.7060804@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804012200340.6604@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hence the proposal of using definite start and end markers:
>
> echo -e '\x1B43m\x1D wonderful \x1B0m\x1D' | cosmicrays | cat
I see no merit in the idea. Most seriously, there isn't any real-world
problem being solved. In addition, it proposes creating yet another
type of terminal emulation. If there's something you don't like about
VT escape codes, use a different emulation. For example, Televideo
terminals used almost exclusively single-character control codes,
reducing the scope of being mid-sequence to, well much closer to zero.
You need to make quite clear that your proposal is to discontinue use of
VT terminal emulation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-02 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 15:15 UTF-8 and Alt key in the console John T.
2008-03-23 15:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-23 15:46 ` John T.
2008-03-23 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 17:47 ` John T.
2008-03-23 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 18:13 ` John T.
2008-03-23 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-28 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 0:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-29 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 0:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-29 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 6:33 ` David Newall
2008-03-29 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-01 20:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-01 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-02 0:02 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-04-02 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-06 8:46 ` Marko Macek
2008-04-06 10:14 ` David Newall
2008-04-06 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
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