From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 5 04:19:14 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA04707 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 04:19:14 -0800 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (root@hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA04700 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 04:19:12 -0800 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA12723 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:17:53 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id OAA12086; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:18:57 +0200 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:18:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199503051218.OAA12086@shadows.cs.hut.fi> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: "Rodney W. Grimes"'s message of 4 Mar 1995 10:51:41 +0200 Subject: Re: backspace now broken Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay, some keyboards do just have the <-- on that key, but many also have the word ``backspace'' or ``<-- backspace'' printed on the key. I have never seen a PC keyboard with that key labeled ``delete''. ... I don't give a sh*t about what OS does what with what character, I care that FreeBSD generates the ascii code for the legend on most if not all keyboards. I don't think it is wise to generate what the legend says, but it should generate the ASCII character which removes the previously typed character, which is the expected behavior of the backspace key (the big one with <-- or backspace in it). ASCII standard says this character code is 0x7f, DEL, RUBOUT, ^?, not ^H, which is *non-destructive* backspace. This is also consistent with what most programs and users expect to see. IBM messed this up in DOS, but they have never been known of their consistent following of standards. My vote goes to ^?. - Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN