- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:48:29 -0400
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
Martin Duerst scripsit:
> I always thought that ^S and ^Q had some distinctive names, but they
> are just listed as DEVICE CONTROL ONE and DEVICE CONTROL THREE in
> Unicode. Their exact definition must come from somewhere else.
AFAIK, the XOFF/XON semantics were defined only by Teletype hardware
and the operating systems that communicated with it, not by any kind
of standard. Similarly, ^R and ^T turned the paper tape punch on and off.
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Was para-dichloro-
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