RE: BOF

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>]

> Also note: the compound text of the X consortium is an ISO-2022
> implementation (not widely implemented, as far as I know).

There exists several editors, such as MULE, which accept full ISO 2022.
The compound text (and anything based on ISO 2022) are usable on them.

> My feeling from reading that document was "we don't know how to
> do this properly - let's specify 2022 and hope it works".....

I know several facts on compound text, not feeling.

The implementors have real experience of 2022.

They also knew Unicode at that time but did not use it. Some of
the implementors knew it does not work.

						Masataka Ohta