Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:23:47 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > And while we are at it, I'd suggest a whole new set of escape > codes, the current sequences are particularly... bad for > stream synchronization. Right now one has to parse strings for > end-of-escape.. which is awkward. I'd just be able to > strchr(s, '^]') for example and know when the escape code > ends. (Compat should of course be honored where necessary.)
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.
-hpa
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