itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >>         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).

To make encoding switchable sounds good to me. :) Now I have a question: 
what code or sequence should I put between different encoding on a screen?
In ISO-2022-KR, <SI> and <SO> are used to indicate start and end of Korean
encoding, respectively.

Jun-Young

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