From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 15:02:01 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> What do you mean by "verbatim". If you mean "don't throw the naked
> control characters at your display", then fine. But I presume you have
> no objection to rendering ESC as a literal ^[ or as \033.
Correct.
(Supporting some national character sets does require sending a literal
ESC to the terminal, but it should only be done when the software knows
that it's safe.)
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>