From: rob@plan9.bell-labs.com rob@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] Questions
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:17:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970910181710.jD6A0ZFYfpxMAJEz0yhrJQaeazGJ4Szq-6WNp0uRKzU@z> (raw)
The up arrow is disinguished in Brazil from the others,
but it's not systematic across machines; the exact
behavior of the keyboard is machine-dependent,
although it shouldn't be.
> 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.
But that's just it: how can a program tell an arrow key from a
legitimate arrow character when they driver doesn't disambiguate?
It's a bad idea to send Unicode values for control characters.
It's a terrible idea.
-rob
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1997-09-11 21:32 Scott
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