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SubjectRe: Unicode console patch
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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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