From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: cut and paste hazard Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:19:08 -0500 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040305221959.21034.qmail@brouhaha.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079134409 20284 80.91.224.253 (12 Mar 2004 23:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 00:33:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B1w9Y-00062S-00 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:33:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1j3l-0004HT-5k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1fNX-000737-KF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B1Wh2-0002LA-3X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1Wh1-0002L1-Pi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:11 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1B1We4-0001on-GW; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:19:08 -0500 Original-To: Paul Rubin In-reply-to: <20040305221959.21034.qmail@brouhaha.com> (message from Paul Rubin on 5 Mar 2004 22:19:59 -0000) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7252 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7252 It turned out that because the Spanish guy's name contained an accented character, Emacs interpreted the 8-bit code for that character as an editing command with the Meta key set. Emacs running on a terminal interprets character codes 128-255 as meta keys; it always has. Is there any way to distinguish Latin-1 text from meta characters when using an xterm? If Emacs is running in an X window, it should accept 8-bit typein as normal text, and require actual meta key events to set off editing commands (I don't know if it does this). Emacs already does this, when using its own window.