Notepad Ctrl-Backspace behavior
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Mar 15, 202614676 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
Text fields in almost all software erase a word when ctrl+backspace is pressed. However, Notepad behaves differently, and inserts a character which is: `` (I copy-pasted it here. I'm not sure if it is visible. It looks like a rectangle in Notepad.) Here is a screenshot: What is this character? Why …
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Fix for: Notepad Ctrl-Backspace behavior
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It's 0x7F "Delete" in ASCII and U+007F "Delete" in Unicode. It's in fact lack of an implementation. Plain Backspace sends an ASCII 0x08 (I'm not sure how the Edit control handles it internally), and it is not uncommon in various operating systems fo…
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