G. Ken Holman scripsit:

>  >Well, that's a question.  Are the terminal control sequences characters or
>  >octets?  On the face of X3.64 (I forget the ISO number), they are octets,
>  >but people think of "move up" as ESC [ A, not 1/11 5/11 4/1 (in the
>  >poor-mans-hex used by the standard).
>  
>  Are you thinking of ISO-2022?  

Not at all.  It's ISO/IEC 6429:1992, "Information technology -- Control
functions for coded character sets", aka ECMA-048.  I agree that the
escape sequences of ISO 2022 are below the character level.

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    5-bit Baudot code plus appropriate headers) is as good a legal document
    as any, even sans digital signature." --me

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