Hello!

Terminal.app is a complicated application and clearly not finished 
(with ls in Terminal I can't see UTF-8 file names correctly, only 
a??o??u????U??O??A?????, doing it in Emacs' shell I see 
a\314?o\314?u\314?\303?U\314?O\314?A\314?\342?\254 and in dired as the 
correct string äöüßÜÖÄ€ as in Finder too).

Maybe we should try to adjust our settings. I have in Terminal's 
«Window Preferences»

	in *Emulation* set
Option+Click to position cursor in command line
(non-ASCII -> Esc is not active/checked)

	in *Monitor* set
Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular (a font from the Java Runtime 
Environment)
anti-aliasing
Copy&Paste with moving/dragging
UTF-8 encoding

	in *Keyboard* /not/ set
alt/Option/⌥ as Meta//Command/⌘


Am 24.03.2005 um 18:17 schrieb Stefan:

>> TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
>> TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=100.1.4
>
> Now, the next problem is keyboard input: my meta key doesn't work in
> Terminal.app

That is true for GNU Emacs as X11 client, running in xterm, or running 
in Terminal. Only Carbon Emacs understand Cmd-x/Apple-x/⌘-x as M-x.

>  and neither do accented chars.  Looking at C-h l I see that the
> byte sequence that Emacs receives is odd.  E.g. for "M-x" Emacs 
> receives (I
> use the "meta-is-bit7" convention):
>
>   C-v \342 C-v \211 C-v \210
>
> Assuming the C-v was meant to be some kind of quoting char (as it is in
> several Unix tools where it plays the same role as Emacs's C-q), we 
> could
> think of it as "\342 \211 \210", which is a valid utf-8 sequence for 
> "≈".
> After trying to insert some accented chars, it seems that indeed the 
> input
> is a kind of "utf-8 interleaved with C-v" and my meta key sends 
> non-ASCII
> chars instead of something like an ESC prefix.  Does anybody know what 
> this
> C-v stuff is about?

I actually don't know what Terminal or Apple or both are trying with 
this and what it's good for (maybe it's necessary for vi/vim), but with 
the above mentioned settings I can directly input with my German 
keyboard these seven umlauts and some more with Character Palette 
utility and Emacs itself writes the month of March as "März" as I set 
it in calendar-month-name-array and in calendar-month-abbrev-array: