On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 3:59 AM Kent Karlsson via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > Den 2019-02-08 21:53, skrev "Doug Ewell via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org > >: > > • Reverse on: ESC [7m > > • Reverse off: ESC [27m > > "Reverse" = "switch background and foreground colours". > > This is an (odd) colour thing. If you want to go with (full!) colour > (foreground and background), fine, but the "reverse" is oddball (and > based on what really old terminals were limited to when it comes to > colour). > Note that this is actually the only thing that stands out to me in Unicode not supporting older character sets; in PETSCII (Commodore 64), the high-bit character characters were the reverse (in this sense) of the low-bit characters.