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Re: ncurses or slang [Re: UTF-8 support status.]

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By author:    Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> When I execute in the UTF-8-mode xterm [XFree86 4.0.1h(149)] of Red Hat
> 7.1 in a shell the line
> 
>   printf '\x1b(0'
> 
> then xterm changes the Unicode values U+0020 to U+007E to the DEC
> graphics character set, even though it is supposed to ignore ISO 2022
> sequences while being in UTF-8 mode, because UTF-8 is one of the
> "encodings outside ISO 2022" in the sense of ISO 2022.
> 

Technically it's an "encoding outside ISO 2022 with standard return",
which means <ESC> % @ is supposed to return it to ISO 2022 mode.

	-hpa
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