> It's also the only non-control ASCII character that can't be typed on an English keyboard
Don't count on it. There's a fairly long standing convention in some countries with some keyboard layouts that Control+Backspace is DEL. This is the case for Microsoft Windows' UK Extended layout, for example.
This is also the case for the UK keyboard maps on FreeBSD/TrueOS. (For syscons/vt at least. X11 is a different ballgame, and the nosh user-space virtual terminal subsystem has the DEC VT programmable backspace key mechanism.)
Don't count on it. There's a fairly long standing convention in some countries with some keyboard layouts that Control+Backspace is DEL. This is the case for Microsoft Windows' UK Extended layout, for example.
This is also the case for the UK keyboard maps on FreeBSD/TrueOS. (For syscons/vt at least. X11 is a different ballgame, and the nosh user-space virtual terminal subsystem has the DEC VT programmable backspace key mechanism.)