From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 04:20:25 CST
Charles Lindsey said:
>> Some Telnet clients or terminals could start to act funny if fed a
>> CSI and they are set to accept 8-bit controls.
> But are there any legitimate and defined uses for those 8 bit control
> characters of ISO 8859?
8859 doesn't defined them as control characters. It merely doesn't use them
(or the 0x00 to 0x1F space).
> Do those Telnet clients or terminals actually take
> special note of them (other than not displaying them)? If not, no problem
> arises.
I've known DEC terminals that use them; there was a general rule something
like 0xNN is equivalent to ESC '[' 0x(NN-40), so 0x84 equals ESC '[' 'D'.
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