> I remember from the good old times that I had some disagreements
> with Mike Jagdis about this stuff.
:-)
> The question is whether one wants a console that is completely
> flexible, in principle also able to handle EBCDIC or Code Page 1234,
> or do we want to stipulate in advance that the console must
> implement ISO 2022 ? For Linux, where many people live close
> to a DOS world, the single character set model may make it easier
> to interface with DOS things.
Maybe what we really need is a really dumb basic console which
has hooks for "emulation" modules to be loaded so you can make
it behave any damn way you like...
Mike
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