Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Unicode console patch | Date | Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:41:31 -0800 (PST) |
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Well, as I said -- I'm trying to revisit all of these, especially the currently broken handling of G0, G1, G2, G3 and the other ISO 2022 issues.
ISO 2022:1994 is also known as ECMA-35, and is available at:
http://www.ecma.ch/stand/ECMA-035.HTM
Just as a proof that the current Linux console is broken, the ISO 2022 (actually, ISO 2375) code for Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) is:
<ESC> ( B <ESC> - A
... and the one for Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) is:
<ESC> ( B <ESC> - b
Linux cannot properly distinguish between these, since it considers 8-bit character sets to be atomic, rather than composed of two 7-bit character sets, which is the ISO 2022 model.
The ISO 2375 registry has a home page at:
http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/
-hpa
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