Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 10:00:04 -0800 From: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@antares.aero.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backspace now broken Message-ID: <95Mar4.100021pst.111161-2@aero.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Mar 1995 04:35:58 PST." <199503041235.HAA07031@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Gene Stark says: > The PC keyboard has two keys: "<-" and "Delete". When I walk up to such > a keyboard, I expect "<-" to generate 0x8 and "Delete" to generate 0x3f. I'm in agreement on this one, as I've said. Thinking it over last night, I realized that others feel equally passionately the other way - their keyboards seem saner to them after this change. Using kernel calls to change single key mappings smacks to me of special pleading and bad design. I would suggest that it might make sense to be able to switch between entire well- publicized key mapping tables, something like the Microsoft "code pages". Plan Nine, out of Bell Labs, which could logically be regarded as the successor to UNIX, is now a Unicode system, with 16-bit characters. I certainly don't suggest we go that far, but a selection of well-chosen key mapping tables would go far to satisfy the needs of the international community, which in the absence of ISO character set capability has gone over to remapping the ASCII character set to a variety of national character sets. Just a suggestion. I do know that on my system, the Backspace key is going to generate ASCII 0x08. I'd prefer to do this via a judicious call in /etc/rc.boot rather than by changing the kernel source with every release. Mike O'Brien
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?95Mar4.100021pst.111161-2>