Subj : Concatenated CTRL-A code causes previous char to be lost
To   : GitLab note in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed Nov 12 2025 00:31:04

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1008#note_7869

"\10" is octal 10, which is decimal 8, which is the ASCII backspace character (Ctrl-H, the CTRL char corresponding to the 8th letter of the alphabet); so that's expected behavior.

If you add "use strict" to the top of your JS source file, you should get a warning or errors about using octal constants.

Use "\x01" instead of "\1" to avoid this issue.
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