Thanks to all who have answered my questions. I was unclear
w.r.t. the backspace character: It isn't needed for positioning (this
is done internally in grotty before the output is emitted) but for
signalling that a character should be underlined or rendered bold.[1]
This isn't directly supported
> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Doing so I wonder how is the backspace character (U+0008, \b)
>> handled in TTYs? Is there any documentation for it?
Andries> There are many types of TTY. A termcap/terminfo entry
Andries> would tell you what escap
