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Re: XML Blueberry
- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 07:28:44 -0700
> NEL has been around
> for a long time even in the ASCII world: the ISO 2022 7-bit
> equivalent of 0x85, which is 0x1B 0x44 (aka ESC D) has been supported
> by ANSI X3.64 terminals since VT100 days.
Well, neither ISO-2022 nor ANSI X3.64 are "straight ASCII",
so I think it's pushing it to argue that NEL has the level of heritage
that CR or LF has. There is no ASCII (seven bit) code for NEL;
and there were more than a few generations of ASCII terminal
predating VT100 clones.
- Dave