Proposal for redesigning the TTY layer

[Rick C. Petty]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:36:56AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> >I personnally think we shouldn't put multibyte-handling inside the
> >clists, but within the drivers, like syscons.
> 
> The problem with doing it that way is that insertion of control
> characters, like XON/XOFF or STOP may happen right in the middle
> of UTF-8 sequences. This may be problematic...

Technically this shouldn't be a problem, because all subsequent UTF-8 bytes
have bit 7 set and bit 6 cleared and XON/XOFF are 7-bit clean, so it should
be pretty obvious that the handshaking happens in the middle of a multibyte
sequence.

-- Rick C. Petty