Re: UTF-8 and Kermit

From: Keld J|rn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
Date: Tue Jul 15 1997 - 17:33:20 EDT


Frank da Cruz writes:

> So if the host uses UTF-8 but I am using a VT320 (or emulator), or the host
> uses ISO 2022 with C1 controls and my emulator is switched to UTF, there
> will be trouble. But that's not so bad, since we must do this now anyway
> prior to making connections to systems that don't use ISO 2022, or that use
> PC code pages (etc) on the wire.

UTF-8 leaves the C1 controls alone. So you can trust the encodings in C1
space to mean what you expect it to mean.

Keld



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