>>         when you would like to mix japanese and korean characters, you can
>>         either use iso-2022-jp-2 (RFC1554), or X11 ctext.
>>         we can use the single code to handle all the iso-2022 variants.
>>         see pkgsrc/x11/kterm, or pkgsrc/editors/nvi-m17n.  it is not a
>>         tower of babel.  we have been doing it and is not hard.
>A serious problem with ISO-2022 is that every country should agree to adopt 
>it as the national standard but it's not likely in the near future. In 
>Korea, ISO-2022-KR has been obsoleted by EUC-KR and nobody is actually
>using it nowadays.

	euc-jp is a variant of iso-2022.  if you support iso-2022, euc-kr
	is easily supported.  all we really need is to make encoding
	switchable (don't assume single standard).

itojun