>Just to clarify something. Forward Delete is _not_ and ascii character. It
>is part of the VT100 document editing command set as found on DEC VT100,
>102, etc. terminals. It is, as the Gnome suggests, a trick key. You hit the
>key and it appears to Forward Delete. It in fact runs some code, which
>accomplishes the same thing as a Forward Delete. The same is true for Page
>Up, Page Down, etc. You must trap the keyboard value associated with the
>key and run a handler for it to actually do anything.
>
>Peter

Fair enough, but apparently the OSX FB runtime includes that bit of 
code for ASCII 127, so we programmers can treat it as a real forward 
delete, whereas the earlier runtimes do not.

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PS. Wouldn't it be fair to say that the same is true of the standard 
delete key? It's functionality is only due to some code somewhere 
responding to the press of a particular key--there's nothing 
intrinsically different about the key itself.