From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Marko Macek <Marko.Macek@gmx.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
"John T." <j.thomast@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:44:06 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F8A26E.3080606@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F88DDB.30409@gmx.net>
Marko Macek wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> One would also like to distinguish, say, Backspace from Ctrl-H. This
>> is trickier, because the termios settings don't permit compound
>> keys. The most obvious way to deal with that is an escape code for
>> Ctrl-H, but that has the risk of breaking a lot of other things.
>
> Backspace is not a problem, since it generates ^? (DEL/127) on Linux
> since the early days.
And yet, Ctrl/H *is* backspace. Look it up in any ASCII chart. Let's
not make a virtue out of ignoring or breaking standards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-06 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 15:15 UTF-8 and Alt key in the console John T.
2008-03-23 15:29 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-23 15:46 ` John T.
2008-03-23 16:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 17:47 ` John T.
2008-03-23 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 18:13 ` John T.
2008-03-23 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-28 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 0:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-29 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 0:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-29 1:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 6:33 ` David Newall
2008-03-29 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-01 20:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-01 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-02 0:02 ` David Newall
2008-04-02 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-06 8:46 ` Marko Macek
2008-04-06 10:14 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-04-06 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
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