Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758874AbYC2AYA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754641AbYC2AXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:23:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43290 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754779AbYC2AXw (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:23:52 -0400 Message-ID: <47ED8C13.5060509@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:23:47 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "John T." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console References: <205509.99433.qm@web45710.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47ED7EBD.8070009@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 17 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > And while we are at it, I'd suggest a whole new set of escape > codes, the current sequences are particularly... bad for > stream synchronization. Right now one has to parse strings for > end-of-escape.. which is awkward. I'd just be able to > strchr(s, '^]') for example and know when the escape code > ends. (Compat should of course be honored where necessary.) I think it would be a major lose to move away from ISO 6429 format; the format is self-terminating and really isn't all that complex. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/