[tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com> writes:
>
>     Mike> In the long run, UTF-8 is probably the only encoding which
>     Mike> makes sense. What else could you use to send multilingual
>     Mike> email in a standard way
>
> ISO-2022-JP-2 aka ISO-2022-INT

Yes, I know that one can use that for example to send mixed
German/Japanese mails when using (X)Emacs. But then only
other (X)Emacs users can read it correctly because nobody
else seems to implement it. 

>     Mike> which everybody can read?
>
> Urk, sorry, that standard is only 30 years old, so obviously nobody
> implements it yet.

It seems to be implemented (partly) in (X)Emacs. 

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