Escape codes are not 100% portable

[Jens Bauer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 April 2015 at 13:16:20 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Jens Bauer"  wrote in message 
> news:otojrdbbmfcfkuyolyse at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> MrCpp, MrC, MPWC, MPWCpp and CodeWarrior.
>
> That's horrible.

I completely agree. But it's not the only thing that's wrong on 
the particular platform (I don't have to mention any names, do I 
?)
Backspace and Delete is *also* exchanged. Oh well, I better stay 
on topic.

> Are you completely sure this is what's happening?  Is this 
> documented?
I believe it's the officially expected behaviour of those 
compilers.
However, it might not be an important issue, because the D parser 
is only using it for line counting.

> This sort of conversion is to be expected during cruntime io,
> but changing the values is nasty.

There are two more compilers, which I have not mentioned; one is 
called Macintosh C (quite old though), the other is from Motorola.

> There is very little reason to change the compiler at this 
> point.  Those compilers are not officially supported as host 
> compilers for building dmd.

I think it's OK to keep the code as it is, as long as the 
developers are aware of the problem that can possibly arise.