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Message-ID: <47EDE2A4.8080702@davidnewall.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:03:08 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, "John T." <j.thomast@...oo.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
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.
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