Interchange converters—compound text

Compound text interchange converters convert between compound text and internal code sets.

Compound text is an interchange encoding defined by the X Consortium. It is used to communicate text between X clients. Compound text is based on ISO2022 and can encode most character sets using standard escape sequences. It also provides extensions for encoding private character sets. The supported code sets provide a converter to and from compound text. The name used to identify the compound text encoding is ct.

The following escape sequences are used to designate standard code sets in the order listed below.

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GR right half of IBM-850 unique characters. Characters common to ISO8859-1 should not use this escape sequence.

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GR right half of Japanese user-definable characters.

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GL right half of IBM-850 unique characters. Characters common to ISO8859-1 do not use this escape sequence.

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GL Japanese (IBM-udcJP) user-definable characters.