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+The konsole adopted some ESC codes allowing to use extended
+color spaces.
+
+There is a predefined 256 color space compatible with his
+xterm sister, and, even beyond that, a 3-byte RGB color space.
+
+The ESC codes are as follows:
+
+   ESC[ ... 38;2;<r>;<g>;<b> ... m   Select RGB foreground color
+   ESC[ ... 48;2;<r>;<g>;<b> ... m   Select RGB background color
+
+   ESC[ ... 38;5;<i> ... m       Select indexed foreground color
+   ESC[ ... 48;5;<i> ... m       Select indexed background color
+
+<r>,<g> and <b> are each values in the range of 0..255 and
+represent the brightness as usual for the respective color.
+
+<i> likely is a value in 0..256, but represents an indexed
+color assignment composed as follows:
+
+  0 ..  15 - System color, these are taken from the schema.
+ 16 .. 231 - Forms a 6x6x6 RGB color cube.
+232 .. 255 - A gray scale ramp without black and white.
+
+Try the tests/color-spaces.pl to visualize the assignment.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+A note on conformance
+
+These ESC codes break the "associativity" of SGR, but after some
+research the result is, that the standard itself is broken here.
+
+The perhaps best codes due to ECMA-48 would probably be e.g.
+38:2:<r>:<g>:<b>, i.e. consistently a colon instead of a semicolon.
+But apparently, this is defined different in ISO-8613 (which is
+included at this place in ECMA-48), actually breaking ECMA-48.
+
+We cannot help this and implemented the codes as above, which
+is a balanced decision.
+
+For 256 color mode, this is compatible with xterm and perhaps
+with other xterm compatible terminal emulations.
+
+
+| ------- Additional Comments From awendt putergeek com  2006-06-07 07:40 -------
+| > So a parameter substring is 0-9 and the colon. The semicolon separates
+| > sub-parameters. Thus 48:5:<Color> would be one sub-parameter, and
+| > 48;5;<Color> many independent, each having an independent meaning in case
+| > of a selective parameter.
+| 
+| 
+| I think you may be onto something here with the colons... I was able to find 
+| ITU T.416 (which is the same as ISO 8613-6) and it says:
+| 
+| --- snip ---
+| 
+| The parameter values 38 and 48 are followed by a parameter substring used to 
+| select either the character foreground ?colour value? or the character 
+| background ?colour value?.
+| 
+| A parameter substring for values 38 or 48 may be divided by one or more 
+| separators (03/10) into parameter elements, denoted as Pe. The format of such 
+| a parameter sub-string is indicated as:
+| 
+|          Pe : P ...
+| 
+| Each parameter element consists of zero, one or more bit combinations from 
+| 03/00 to 03/09, representing the digits 0 to 9. An empty parameter element 
+| represents a default value for this parameter element. Empty parameter 
+| elements at the end of the parameter substring need not be included.
+| 
+| The first parameter element indicates a choice between:
+| 
+|            0   implementation defined (only applicable for the character 
+| foreground colour)
+|            1   transparent;
+|            2   direct colour in RGB space;
+|            3   direct colour in CMY space;
+|            4   direct colour in CMYK space;
+|            5   indexed colour.
+| 
+| If the first parameter has the value 0 or 1, there are no additional parameter 
+| elements.
+| 
+| If the first parameter element has the value 5, then there is a second 
+| parameter element specifying the index into the colour table given by the 
+| attribute ?content colour table? applying to the object with which the 
+| content is associated.
+| 
+| --- snip ---
+| 
+| The separator character 03/10 they use is a colon, not a semicolon... I wonder 
+| if the xterm implementation was based on an improper reading of the standard?
+|