Re: what backspace means

[Bruno Haible]

Robert Brady writes:

> One of these is rather confusingly named "backspace".

Yes. Coming from ASCII, "backspace" could have been extended to mean
either "go back to the previous column" or "erase the last
complex character (= the last non-combining character with all
combining characters attached to it)". Standards say it takes the
former semantics.

But David Starner's point about proportional fonts shows that it'd be
nice to have a different control code which means "erase the last
complex character". Markus, is there such a thing defined among the
ISO standards?

Bruno
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