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Summary: term in IUCLC aka ILCASE mode does not treat
backslash as escape
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: kon
Submitted on: Mon Jul 11 11:37:52 2016
Category: Hurd Servers
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Hardware Support
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Reproducibility: Every Time
Size (loc): None
Planned Release: None
Effort: 0.00
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Details:
If the IUCLC (also known as ILCASE) input mode is enabled and an upper-case
letter comes from the terminal, then the term translator replaces it with the
lower-case equivalent. I believe this is intended to let the user type
lower-case characters even on terminals that support only upper case.
The term translator also supports the LAST_SLASH flag to temporarily suspend
this translation. It however never sets that flag. A comment in term/term.h
says LAST_SLASH means the last input character was a backslash. In
term/munge.c (input_character), the part that checks the LAST_SLASH seems to
assume that the backslash was also stored to the rawq, and erases it from
there. I don't know whether the backslash was also supposed to be echoed back
to the terminal.
The symbol IUCLC was removed in Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6.
NetBSD and Linux do not implement it. The GNU C Library manual does not
document it. Upper-case-only terminals are not common nowadays. I suggest
removing this feature from the Hurd.
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