From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754744AbYDFQiG (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:38:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754103AbYDFQhx (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:37:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45405 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755836AbYDFQhs (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:37:48 -0400 Message-ID: <47F8FC50.2010406@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:37:36 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Macek CC: Jan Engelhardt , "John T." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console References: <205509.99433.qm@web45710.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <47ED7EBD.8070009@zytor.com> <47F88DDB.30409@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <47F88DDB.30409@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > It would be really nice to be able get arbitrary modifier combinations > for all keys and a separate combination for the escape key. > Yes; this probably needs to be modal, but we can probably live with that. -hpa