Henry Spencer wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Egmont Koblinger wrote: > > What is backspace supposed to do with NFD unicode streams? Should it delete > > one unicode entity (that is only the accent from the top of a letter) or a > > complete combined character? > > If combining accents are sent as they are typed, it would clearly be > useful to provide both, presumably specified by different keyboard > sequences. If the complete character is sent only after the keyboard > handler is satisfied (somehow) that it *is* complete, then backspace ought > to delete the whole thing. My editor mined (http://towo.net/mined/) deletes the previous character on Backspace, and deletes the last combining character (accent) on the previous character with Control-Backspace (provided this is configured to send a recognisible escape sequence).
I think "Control" is a very intuitive modifier to perform some sort of "controlled" variation of a keyboard function. Thomas -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
