From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier " Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: accents in xterm emacs Date: 30 Jan 2003 10:51:59 -0500 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5l4r7q7i00.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <87hebrekye.fsf@bornier.net> <87bs1zfwp5.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> <87y953pow1.fsf@bornier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043942692 19592 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 16:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18eHBL-00055s-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:04:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18eHBm-00065Q-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:05:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 30 Jan 2003 10:51:59 -0500, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109584 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6101 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6101 >> Try 'TERM=linux && emacs -nw'. > Yes, this solves my problem number one, Huh !? Does anybody know why this works ? I thought that C-x RET k (aka set-keyboard-coding-system) was unavoidable. > accented letters can be read within gnus). Besides I lose my "M" key, > which is kind of disturbing in emacs ;). I could not find it anywhere else. Maybe your terminal sends the same code for M-i as for é, in which case you'll first need to figure out how to tell it to send different codes so that Emacs can tell the difference. Usually, terminals can be configured to turn the meta key into an ESC prefix (which is Emacs understands automatically). See the metaSendsEscape and the eightBitInput resources of your xterm. Stefan