From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2007 - 16:28:29 CST
ISO 6429 (equivalently ECMA 48, ANSI X3.64) defines terminal control
sequences using the control characters in the U+0000 - U+001F block.
Many control sequences begin with Escape (U+001B) and also include other
characters in the printable Basic Latin block.
I get the impression from reading ECMA 48 that these control sequences
are defined directly on byte values, not character values. That means
they could not be used with Unicode character encoding schemes such as
UTF-16, UTF-7, or SCSU, which represent U+001B as something other than
the single byte 0x1B. It also means they *could* be used with UTF-8.
Is this correct?
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