Re: ISO 2022

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 02:15:34PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> 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.

2022 is supported in the charmaps defined with the draft ISO/IEC
TR 14652, available from the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 web site at
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/projects.html.en#14652

Kind regards
Keld Simonsen
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