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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Escape chars etc.
Message-ID: <788@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 19:00:08 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.788
Posted: Thu Nov 14 19:00:08 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 03:43:32 EST
References: <485@harvard.UUCP> <125100002@ima.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <125100002@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
>Sounds to me like it's a bad idea to have shift sequences with global
>effect, which is not too surprising.  If we declare that each line has to
>be self-describing, with appropriate shift sequences at the beginning if
>it is in other than the standard character set, that makes it entirely
>possible to make tail, grep, and such work.

OK, but I think you still want to be able to put a global override for the
entire file at the beginning.  A rule that says shift sequences not at the
beginning of the file affect the current line only seems like a reasonable
compromise.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108