Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756757AbYC2GdU (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751382AbYC2GdL (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:33:11 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:35001 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750793AbYC2GdL (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:33:11 -0400 Message-ID: <47EDE2A4.8080702@davidnewall.com> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:03:08 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , "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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 15 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. It's not very useful being able to tell you are inside a escape sequence unless you see that sequence from the start. You do need the complete sequence to make sense of it. -- 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/