wez / ecma48

The spec for "ANSI Escape sequences" in searchable, linkable form

ECMA-48 in searchable, copy-n-pastable form

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ECMA-48 is the freely available standard that defines ANSI Escape Sequences. The text in ECMA-48 is identical to the corresponding ANSI standard but is made freely available via the ECMA website whereas the ANSI standard requires fees to access.

ECMA-48 was last revised in 1979 and the currently available digital representation of the standard is a scan of a hard copy document from that time, and that makes it difficult to search and link into.

I (@wez) took it upon myself to OCR and transcribe this document into markdown to open things up a bit. I need this documentation as part of my effort in building terminal emulation software.

Regenerating the built book

This book uses mdBook to transform markdown into a readable form. To regenerate it:

$ cargo install mdbook
$ mdbook build --open

Then add the modified files into a commit and submit a pull request!

ecma48's Issues

"ECMA-48 was last revised in ?1979?"

The README says that "ECMA-48 was last revised in 1979", but that doesn't sound right to me. The second edition was released in 1979, third and fourth in the 80s, and fifth in 1991.

You probably already knew that, but maybe consider updating the README so that folks like me don't stumble upon the page and get confused.