On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:46:48PM +1000, Jim Breen wrote:
> [Markus Kuhn (Re: Backspace problem in Xterm/rxvt) writes:]
> [snip]
> >> Various Japanese users told us however that they strongly prefer that
> >> Backspace moves always one character cell, not one character. The rational
> >> given was only that this is how existing EUC terminal emulators such as
> >> kterm have worked for years and that they got used to that. I'm not
> >> entirely convinced yet, but didn't make a big fuzz about it so far,
> >> because we need more some stability, otherwise the developers of proper
> >> editors will become annoyed.
>
> I find that amazing. I have used kterm for about 10 years with editors
> like jvim and jstevie, not to mention non-Unix editors like Word, etc.
> with Japanese. In all cases backspace erases the *whole* character; not
> just half it.
Backspace doesn't delete characters in kterm, it just moves the
cursor one position to the left. Delete (i.e. 0177) is just ignored.
It's the job of the terminal driver (or the application, if "raw"
mode is used) to erase characters if the user presses the backspace
key. This is normally done by sending <BACKSPACE><SPACE><BACKSPACE>.
Cheers,
Michael.
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