Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759339AbYC2BHa (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:07:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755994AbYC2BHS (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:07:18 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33314 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755987AbYC2BHR (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:07:17 -0400 Message-ID: <47ED963E.3060709@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:07:10 -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> <47ED8C13.5060509@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: 775 Lines: 20 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> 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. > > What do you mean by self-terminating? There is no easy > synchronization like in UTF-8, given you are anywhere inside > a text stream, how do you know (a) you are already in an > escape sequence and (b) how to figure out the rebegin of > normal text. (a) isn't readily supported (other than scanning backwards), but (b) is pretty easy, see ISO 6429. -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/