Re: Stateful encoding mechanisms

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 19:59:42 CDT

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To preempt the nitpickers...

> The presence of the byte sequence <1B 24 42> in an ISO 2022 text stream
> *alters* the interpretation of an immediately following 0x46 byte
> from being LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F to being the initial byte of
> a two byte Shift-JIS encoding of the Japanese ideograph for
             ^^^^^^^^^
             JIS encoding (not Shift-JIS encoding)

> 'hi' "day", and sets a state changing the interpretation of all
> subsequent bytes in the stream (until the next escape sequence).

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