Re: Character set tagging considered harmful

[towo@computer.org]

: ... Looking through the xterm code, I notice that it
: stores each character of the screen in two bytes (excluding color and
: attributes).  This can't be the UTF-8 code, that would require three bytes.
: Since Vim does screen handling like xterm, I might end up doing the same.
But screen output (and display managament) is a write-only UTF-8 
application - you wouldn't want to get characters back out from the screen.
Text handling in an editor is quite different.

Kind regards,
Thomas Wolff
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