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Re: console vs ^X


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


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