Re: ISO-2022

[Bruno Haible]

Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:

> We can use Japanese without ISO-2022 support ...
> I want a few infrastructure softwares such as XTerm to support it
> (so that ISO-2022-enabled software can run on them)

If you say Japanese terminals are usable without ISO-2022 support, why
do you want XTerm to support ISO-2022? This would only lead to more
Japanese software that does special hacks for supporting this old
ISO-2022. It'd be better if software from Japanese authors would use
standard APIs (mb/wc etc.), so it can be more useful outside Japan.

Take for example w3m, a superb text mode browser. It has special
options for JIS, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, but nothing which works with all
encodings.

Bruno
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