console vs ^X

[Thomas Wolff]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>   
>> On Sep 29 10:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 03:34:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> I assume the only safe approach is to ignore the keypress entirely
>>>>> if it's not in the current charset.
>>>>>           
>>>> We could also just replace the char with a question mark.  That's what
>>>> cmd does in border cases, AFAICS.  Sometimes it replaces the character
>>>> with a base character (in 1251, for instance, a-umlaut with just a),
>>>> but that's not something we can do in a simple way.
>>>>
>>>> So, ignore the key or question mark?
>>>>         
>>> How about a question mark and a beep, or just a beep?
>>>       
>> What concerns me a bit is, if a copy/paste into the console contains
>> lots of invalid chars.  It's not fair to the user's ears ;)
>>
>> OTOH, it's probably not fair to the user to ignore these chars silently.
>>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> Maybe beep+question mark is the best.
>>     
>
> Maybe a beep+question mark+popup dialog would be best.  We could call this
> Unknown Alternate Character processing.
>
> cgf
>   
I would ignore and beep, i.e. let the terminal beep but don't insert 
anything, so there's no beep that could be copied.
I think that's what most other terminals do, can check tomorrow.

Thomas