Tab and pipe do not work on Droid 2

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Press tab key (upper left corner)
2. Press Alt-Shift-,  (my understanding suggests that this is supposed to 
produce a | (PIPE) symbol)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. I expect a tab, I get nothing
2. I expect a '|', I get a ;

What version of the product are you using (you can see this by using Menu
-> About in the Host List)?

1.7.0

What type of system are you trying to connect to?

Droid 2

If you are able to connect, what is the output of "echo $TERM", "uname -a",
and any other relevant information on the host?

Please provide any additional information below.

Attaching a patch which enables the TAB button, and makes control-, (COMMA) 
generate a pipe symbol (I'm not sure if this latter part is the desired/proper 
fix.  I chose it out of personal preference.. feel free to disregard, of course)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dunha...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2010 at 2:23

Attachments:

• droid2.patch

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I too would like to see the tab support.

However, i'd like to note; I am looking at my driod 2 and the ctrl+[comma] 
character on the hardware keyboard is a semicolon.

Original comment by dekim...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 7:17

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thanks for the patch. i saw it was moved around but included in GIT src. works 
great.

Original comment by murray8...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 10:38

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This has been fixed?

Original comment by rod...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 11:38

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The patch worked fine on Desire Z as well. Thanks!

Original comment by oll...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2010 at 6:54

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I'm on 1.7.1, on a Motorola Droid 2 (up to date system as of this writing,  
non-rooted), from Verizon, *none* of the shift-alt sequences work.  Don't know 
what good a ctrl- sequence is when the is no ctrl- key.  The OK key does not 
seem to really be ctrl because when I press OK-s and then press some other 
stuff, i can still see the other stuff, whereas ctrl-s would have stopped the 
echo. 

Original comment by bobn1...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2011 at 5:36

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It patch seems to work from the comments, but it's not in the latest 1.7.1 git 
source download. I don't have developer access, or even the android SDK or 
knowledge on how to compile for Android. 

Someone said it was moved but included in git, but I don't see it or see a 
release with it. Can haz binary?

Original comment by kalakla...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2011 at 7:04

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Try ALT + SYM to get special chars.  Doesn't work in terminal tho. have to use 
soft keyboard. - rlrandallx

Original comment by RobinLRa...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2011 at 6:09

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'OK' + 'i' gives me a tab, still need to find out what pipe is

Original comment by mattmat...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2011 at 2:54

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The hardware Tab key is fixed in current Git, but other characters remain 
inaccessible: [, ], {, }, \, |, `.

A few other keystrokes are possible but could be easier:
Home: OK OK Shift+O Shift+H
End: OK OK Shift+O Shift+F
F1: OK OK Shift+O Shift+P
F2: OK OK Shift+O Shift+Q
F3: OK OK Shift+O Shift+R
F4: OK OK Shift+O Shift+S

Original comment by andersk@mit.edu on 12 Sep 2011 at 10:57

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FWIW, the "normal" way to type the braces and brackets is either alt+space (to 
get the symbols list up) or to hold down some of the punctuation keys (e.g. 
holding down the / key will give an option to replace it with a \)

Original comment by fastcat@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2011 at 12:49

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Alt+Space doesn’t work in ConnectBot either; it just sends a U+EF01 character 
(http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/issues/detail?id=261).  And holding down a 
punctuation key just makes it repeat.

Original comment by andersk@mit.edu on 13 Sep 2011 at 2:48