Re: misc/50222: Backspace key does not erase, generates '^?' charactor in framebuffer conosole and ttyEx

[Yasushi Oshima <oshima-ya%yagoto-urayama.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50222; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yasushi Oshima <oshima-ya%yagoto-urayama.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/50222: Backspace key does not erase, generates '^?'
 charactor in framebuffer conosole and ttyEx
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:52:02 +0900 (JST)

 mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost wrote:
 
 >  >Backspace key generates '^?' charactor, instead of erase one charactor.
 >  
 >  That's because the backspace key on your keyboard generates a keycode
 >  that is translated to ^? by wskbd. This is true for the keymap provided
 >  by pckbd, but the keymap from the ukbd driver maps the key to ^H.
 
 Thanks.
 
 I understood the keymap is not unified in wskbd. so it is not
 possible to cover the one terminfo type...
 
 I think the keymap of BS in wskbd (which is the NetBSD own device)
 may be unified (is this the same as CERASE of tty(4)?).
 
 Until then,
 I proposes to add a new wscons type in terminfo which has kbs=\177
 (wscons25kbs?) for users to enable select the type in /etc/ttys 
 depending on the keyboard.
 
 Thanks.
 --
 Yausushi Oshima