Re: Stateful?

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Hello Russ Stygall,

you have asked:
> Could any of the users of the word "stateful" tell me what they mean
> by the word, and could they then put an entry into Wikipedia for
> everyone else?

Quote from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(computer_science)>:
> A character encoding such as ISO 2022 is said to be stateful
> if the interpretation of a particular code value depends
> on the code values that came before it.

An ISO 2022 example (German: “Beispiel”) can be found under:
<http://www.systems.uni-konstanz.de/Otto/Vortrag/Charset/Unicode-Grundlagen#CX-ISO2022>,
where the code values determining the interpretion of the
subsequent ones are highlighted yellow and green, respectively.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz

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