Re: Alt Putty

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 1:01:02 PM UTC+5:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:13:11 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Rusi 
> > 
> > Looking at things like:
> > http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/putty-configuration/
> > 
> > I gather I need to set up a suitable terminfo (on server):
> > 
> > # apt-get install ncurses-term
> > 
> > And then set the $TERM to putty (not the default xterm) on the putty side
> 
> FWIW, my TERM is set to xterm, and it works well.
> 
> > Right now tried opening an xterm and typing Alt-x
> > I get  this (captured with emacs -nw)
> > 
> > 
> >              position: 1 of 1 (0%), column: 0
> >             character: ø (displayed as ø) (codepoint 248, #o370, #xf8)
> >     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> > code point in charset: 0xF8
> 
> That's 'x' with the high bit set.  Do you see the same in "emacs -nw -Q"?
> What does "C-h l" show after you type Alt-x?

ESC [ > 4 1 ; 3 1 2 ; 0 c ESC ] 1 1 ; r g b : 0 0 0
0 / 0 0 0 0 / 0 0 0 0 ESC \ ø C-h l

[Note this is a bit academic as I am not on the systems where I need this]