1 Scope
This Inernational Standard specifies the structure of 8-bit codes and
7-bit codes which provide for the coding of character sets.
The key language here is "provide for". ISO 2022 may be viewed
as an encapsulation technique (i.e., an encoding scheme) for
composing complex strings from simple strings where a simple
string is a sequence of coded character representations as
defined by a single coded character set.
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