ECI Mode
Also known as:
Extended Channel Interpretation
Extended Channel Interpretation — a meta-mode that switches the character encoding for subsequent data segments. ECI allows specifying UTF-8 (ECI 26), GB2312, or any of 999,999 defined character encodings beyond the default ISO 8859-1.
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