Bug#201602: gnome-terminal cannot send NUL character

[Marko Mäkelä]

Hi,

> > I tried to debug a microcontroller application with C-Kermit and
> > gnome-terminal.  I can send other control characters fine, but the
> > NUL character (ctrl-2 on my keyboard), which works fine in xterm
> > and (I think) has worked fine in previous versions of gnome-terminal,
> > appears to be ignored by this version of gnome-terminal.
> 
>  This is not a bug, but a feature!  :)

It could also be that the bug has been fixed during the 2.5 years the report
was open.  In gnome-terminal 2.12.0-2 with the X11 or default input method
selected, ctrl-2 through ctrl-7 do generate proper codes, i.e., the same
ones the Linux console or a real Digital VT220 terminal would.  (To see
the NUL character, run something like "od -t x1"; bash would drop it.)

>  It seems Ctrl+digit (or Ctrl+Shift+digit on french keyboards) is a way
>  to type characters via their ASCII or UTF-8 code.

This appears to be something else.  Thanks for the tip; I wasn't aware of
the ctrl+shift+digit feature.

In any case, the bug can be closed.  [It looks like you mistyped the
control address in your message.]

	Marko