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From:
David Newall <davidn@...>
To: Marko Macek <Marko.Macek@...>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>, John T. <j.thomast@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
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Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 6:14 am
Marko Macek wrote:
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> 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. --
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UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, John T.
, (Sun Mar 23, 11:15 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
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, (Sun Mar 23, 11:29 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, John T.
, (Sun Mar 23, 11:46 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Sun Mar 23, 12:54 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, John T.
, (Sun Mar 23, 1:47 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Sun Mar 23, 1:55 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, John T.
, (Sun Mar 23, 2:13 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, Jan Engelhardt
, (Sun Mar 23, 2:46 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Fri Mar 28, 7:26 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, Marko Macek
, (Sun Apr 6, 4:46 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Sun Apr 6, 12:37 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, David Newall
, (Sun Apr 6, 6:14 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, Jan Engelhardt
, (Fri Mar 28, 8:07 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Fri Mar 28, 8:23 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, Jan Engelhardt
, (Fri Mar 28, 8:44 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, David Newall
, (Sat Mar 29, 2:33 am)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
, (Sat Mar 29, 1:05 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, Jan Engelhardt
, (Tue Apr 1, 4:13 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, David Newall
, (Tue Apr 1, 8:02 pm)
Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
, H. Peter Anvin
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Re: UTF-8 and Alt key in the console
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