^ This Also not just ECMA. The standard was ratified by ANSI X3.64-1979, ISO/IEC 6429, and FIPS-86 in addition to ECMA-48. The whole civilized world wants thes

^ This Also not just ECMA. The standard was ratified by ANSI X3.64-1979, ISO/IEC 6429, and FIPS-86 in addition to ECMA-48. The whole civilized world wants these codes (e.g. \033[A for UP) to be a standard. Because it makes console development blissful when you can ignore all the accidental complexity of curses and terminfo when you can just assume the terminal behaves sanely and isn't the leftover byproduct of bygone commercial rivalries.