Small request for the new cygwin terminal

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 12:16:00 GMT 2012


On 12 June 2012 14:11, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> -----BEGIN Original Message-----
> From: Andy Koppe
> On 11 June 2012 13:55, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> I don't get
>> the U+009F result from the "/" key from any combination of Ctrl
>> and Shift.
>
> On a US keyboard, Shift+"/" is "?", and Ctrl+"?" is itself a valid
> control character combination, producing ^? (i.e. 0x7F).
>
> Andy
> -----END Original Message-----
> I hate to prolong this relatively uninteresting thread, but I
> don't see how you addressed my point, which is that the table at
> http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Keycodes#Ctrl indicates
> that one can generate U+009F with the "/", Ctrl, and Shift keys...
> +-----+------+------------+
> | Key | Ctrl | Ctrl+Shift |
> +-----+------+------------+
> |  /  |  ^_  |   U+009F   |
> +-----+------+------------+
> ...but this doesn't seem to be the case, at least with a
> standard US keyboard.

Can you take a look at the latest revision of that wiki page section?
Note the 'Char' instead of 'Key' in the table header, along with a bit
of extra text.

Thanks,
Andy

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