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Re: ISO 2022

H. Peter Anvin wrote on 1999-11-03 23:54 UTC:
> > It's the terminal emulator, not the editor or other application that
> > has to deal with the %G.
> 
> Not if it is stored in the file.

ISO 2022 was intended as a generic tell-me-the-encoding-of-the-following-bytes
mechanism. It can and is being used

  - in files
  - on communication lines
  - in fields of databases and file formats
  - to control input/output devices (video terminals, printers, etc.)
  - in email and news articles

It was definitely not exclusively intended a video terminal command
sequence. It's scope is significantly larger than for instance the
MIME tagging mechanism.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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