> The question is whether one wants a console that is completely
> flexible, in principle also able to handle EBCDIC or Code Page 1234,
> or do we want to stipulate in advance that the console must
> implement ISO 2022 ? For Linux, where many people live close
> to a DOS world, the single character set model may make it easier
> to interface with DOS things.
Well, we need to support multiple charsets -- at least different
versions of ISO 8859, as well as KOI-8 and the like -- as soon as
possible. 2022 seems to be the standard of choice, and I think the VT
terminal can easily be adapted to be 2022 compliant.
Yes, it is not too far from it. But:
- Code Page nnnn is not ISO 2022 compliant.
Alt and KOI-8 are not ISO 2022 either.
And Unicode does not follow ISO 2022 either.
We'll need something more general than ISO 2022 in any case.
- What do you mean: support multiple charsets?
More than one simultaneously? With escape codes switching?
And this built into the kernel?
Why not in xterm or vtterm?
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