Re: backspace policy (Re: kernel tty patches)

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes:

> "\b" does not erase the previous character, only moves the cursor
> to the left. So you must know widths anyway

Let's take a new character, say DEL ('\177'). We could define that for
UTF-8 terminals, DEL always erases the last character, i.e. - for the
nonproportional case - corresponds to a number of "\b \b" sequences.

This would have the benefits of
  1. avoiding incompatibilities caused by disagreeing wcwidth definitions,
  2. making terminals with nonproportional fonts better supported,
  3. being a feature not provided in traditional CJK environments.

Which is the standards body where we could submit such a proposal?

Bruno
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