Re: [dev] [st] Stuck in ISO 2022 locking escapes and Evil escape sequences

From: Pickfire <pickfire_AT_riseup.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:41:41 +0800

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 08:30:59AM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
>> >mosh mentions some "UTF8 terminal mode", which is different
>> >from "ISO 2022" and doesn't even have G0-3. It's all mentioned
>> >in the link[1].
>> >
>> >[1]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#term
>
>This is the personal opinion of the author of the article. Can
>you send me a link to the standard where it is said?. The problem
>with terminals is they stop their evolution at the beginning
>of the 90, so there is no standard way of doing utf8 stuff.
>
>> I thought suckless uses UTF-8? Most applications[1] are already using UTF8
>> now, so does suckless need to use 'ISO 2022' or 'utf8'?
>
>The utf-8 sequence that the page talks about is only a common
>sequence that some terminals accepts, but it is not standard at
>all, and there is no concept of utf-8 or ISO 2022 modes. St
>implements a vt200 compatible terminal with only ASCII support
>(without the upper part of the code table), and it has an
>extension that is utf8. You don't have to send any sequence
>to activate any 'mode'.
>
In a nutshell, st will remain the way it is or is st going to explore
more about it?

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