Re: [dev] [st] [PATCH] 8bit-meta like xterm

From: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:05:12 +0200

> The nice thing about ASCII and the QWERTY layout is that it has
> all ASCII characters easily available, so you can enter *all*
> latin1-subset-of-Unicode characters with just it.

Because all the latin1 symbols begin from a0, that is the smaller value you
can generate using a meta key, because 20 first ascii codes are control
codes, and you have to generate them using a control combination. Like I
said in other mail, this was the original function of meta, and this is the
reason latin1 (or iso8859-1) was designed in this way.

A funny point is that older keyboard generated all these combinations by
hardware, conecting to earth or vcc the lines, so it was very simple design
them.
Received on Tue Apr 23 2013 - 18:05:12 CEST