Maybe it's me that doesn't understand right.
As I understand it, currently, when you specify a character set (or
codepage or font or announcement or ... -- I've not studied ISO 2022 yet
to be sure which way the terminology is bending at the moment) you're
only specifying the "shift-out" version of the character set -- what you
get after the console hits a ^O command. What you get after the console
hits a ^N command is fixed.
As I understand it, ISO 2022 indicates that what you get after
you hit a ^N should be a part of the character set definition.
It seems to me that we could grandfather the current behavior by
declaring that it is a property of the font (rather than being a
property of the console). That is: if you need the current behavior,
it's up to you to have the right character set (font, whatever) loaded.
-- Raul
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