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ctrl-whatever seems to produce whatever minus 64, but only works for ascii codes 64 to 95, thus producing the untypable ascii codes 0 to 31, except for the following:

avoid ctrl-c (3)(sigint)
might not distinguish ctrl-j (10) from ctrl-m (10/13) due to nl/lf shenanigans
avoid ctrl-q (17)(control flow)
avoid ctrl-s (19)(control flow)
avoid ctrl-z (26)(job control)
ctrl-[ (27) will have a slight delay as it's ESC on it's own.
avoid ctrl-\ (28)(sigquit)

again, anything besides ascii 64 to 95 (@ A-Z [ \ ] ^ _) will either not work or produce strange results (ctrl-4 is also sigquit?!?)

no way to distinguish ctrl-shift-whatever from ctrl-whatever

alt produces two characters, ESC then whatever, works with ctrl, same problem with ctrl-shift

super is probably eaten by the os most of the time

DEL (127) might not be typable, depending on your term, and it might become some curses constant instead

as all this is ascii, it's probably fairly code-page independent, but on a non-US keyboard layout it's probably more complicated


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