Small request for the new cygwin terminal

[Helmut Karlowski]

Helmut Karlowski, 07.06.2012 17:52:43:

> Nellis, Kenneth, 07.06.2012 16:56:57:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andy Koppe
>> <snip/>
>> It is done on purpose, to allow Shift+Esc to be bound to a different
>> function if desired. It's documented here:
>>
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes#Special_keys
>>
>> Shift+ESC sends the Unicode codepoint U+009B, aka the Control Sequence
>> Introducer (CSI) character.
>> <snip/>
>> -----END Original Message-----
>>
>> My experience does not agree with the "Special keys" table at the
>> page referenced by that URL.
>
> On my german keyboard I receive ^[^[ (2x ESC) for Shift-ESC. Character  
> Set is CP850 if that matters. As of my understanding CSI is something  
> like ESC[ (at least on an ANSI-terminal, is this different on xterm?).

Switching to ISO-8859-1 emits 0x9b which seems to be correct.

-- 
Helmut Karlowski

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