Re: ISO 2022 versus UTF-8 autodetection heuristics

["T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>]

> > 48 (ISO 2022 and ISO 6429). This allows applications to reliably jump 
> > over ESC sequences that that do not know. In a nutshell, an ESC sequence 
> > starts with ESC and ends with a letter (see the standards for the 
> > precise details). This is widely implemented in terminal emulators (at 
> > least in the good ones where the authors read the standards ;-). 
>  
> Read which standard?  This can't be the only one.  Why else would there be a 
> termcap/terminfo database with so many entries? 
>  
> Anyway, I don't know a single application that ignores these escape sequences. 

It's the terminal emulator, not the editor or other application that
has to deal with the %G.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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