From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754950AbYDFKOV (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:14:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751766AbYDFKOM (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:14:12 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:36449 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751763AbYDFKOM (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:14:12 -0400 Message-ID: <47F8A26E.3080606@davidnewall.com> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:44:06 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Macek CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , 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 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. 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.