Subject: Re: Japanese with wscons?
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/12/2001 10:50:57
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:12:22PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >>         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.
> 
> 	i don't think escape sequence works here (at least you cannot go out
> 	from UTF8 using escape sequences, I believe)  maybe a sysctl to switch
> 	encodings?

Maybe I misunderstand, but how would you display a multilanguage document on
the screen with this?

	-is