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From: arthur@gateway.dircsa.org.au (Arthur Marsh)
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Subject: Re: Kermit as a terminal for V.18-capable modems
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Markus Kuhn (mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
[edit]
: - Use UTF-8. It is self synchronizing, ASCII compatible, and therefore
: clearly the nicest solution.
: I recently discussed UTF-8 support with a Kermit author and he seems to
: have put it on his todo list. Mail him that you would also be interested.
: >Is there a standard sequence in ISO 10646 that can be used to tell a terminal
: >package to enter ISO 10646 mode? Presumably the V.18-compliant modem could
: >also accept and send data as single-byte Latin-1 characters.
: ESC % G announces UTF-8. See the ISO 10646 standard and the UTF-8
: addendum for all the ISO 2022 ESC sequences if you really need switching
: (section R.6).
: Check out <ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/charsets/> for
: more info about UTF-8.
: Markus
Thanks, I will pass your message along to the textphone mailing list.
(see http://www.pi.se/~omnitor for details).
--
Arthur Marsh, telephone +61-8-8370-2365, fax +61-8-8223-5082
arthur@dircsa.org.au
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