Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-08-11 14:22:23 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > i wrote: > > > > Mine is a US QWERTY. Two "Alt" keys, no "AltGr". > > > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > It is written "Alt" on US keyboards, and "Alt Gr" on US-International > > > and non-US keyboards. > > > > As X events mine are distinguished as Alt_L and Alt_R. > > (After all the translation stories i am not sure whether > > this is true on all QWERTY keyboards.) > > Just like you can differentiate the two Shift keys and the two > Ctrl keys. > > > > You can fill a feature request for xterm to have > > > NO-BREAK SPACE displayed in some given color (a bit like what > > > Emacs does in a terminal) or in some alternative way. > > > > I guess it is a matter of font whether there is a visible glyph. > > In general, one wants NO-BREAK SPACE to be displayed just like a space.
Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to be displayed as a normal space? (For example, in the shell, as in the OP's original question.) It seems a recipe for confusion at best, and for exploits at worst. > The differentiation is useful mainly in source code > and when editing, thus it must be done by the application via > configuration (actually applications running in the terminal > rather than the terminal itself). If I have read this thread thoroughly enough, I don't think any of it is specifically aimed at VCs, so I've posed a question in another thread. Cheers, David.
