From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:09:01 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@finch.cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Questions
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rob@plan9.bell-labs.com writes:
| Certainly not.  The arrow keys are control characters; the arrow
| characters are printable glyphs.

In libXg, they send 0x80, 0x81, 0x82, 0x83.  What does Brazil do?  I
don't think that returning the same non-character (0x80) for all the
motion keys has worked out too well.

| This is like suggesting CR print
| as a little down-and-to-the-left arrow.

A little.  But just because a key is identified by a funny unicode
glyph doesn't mean that the terminal emulator has to print that glyph
whenever the key is struck; it just means that programs that care have
a way to get an unambiguous symbol from the system.