From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joelvsmith@earthlink.net (Joel Smith) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs -nw and accented characters Date: 17 Jan 2004 20:03:18 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8c14dcec.0401172003.2f98473b@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074399562 10347 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 04:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 05:18:34 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 1Ai4OB-0002Nx-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:18:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ai4Lb-0007K3-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:15:39 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.64.187.40 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1074398598 865 127.0.0.1 (18 Jan 2004 04:03:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 04:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120189 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16133 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16133 > terminal-coding-system is irrelevant when using X, as Emacs loads the > fonts it needs directly. Perhaps your "aterm" is expecting accented > characters to be something other than iso-8859-1 (utf-8 for > example). You need to set terminal-coding-system to match what the > terminal expects. > It looks fine in an xterm for me. Try to set you locale. Maybe > something like LANG=en_US.iso88591. I'm not quite sure what I should do to handle the first suggestion. a differences of the output of mule-diag in emacs -nw in an xterm and an aterm yields no differences. as far as emacs is concerned mule (coding systems, etc.) is operating in the same way between terminals, but the results are different. what does it mean to "set terminal-coding-system to match what the terminal expects?" What does the terminal expect? as far as xterm goes, emacs does behave well inside of it. emacs -nw with xterm will display accented characters. aterm displays accented characters, but emacs -nw inside of aterm does not.. the differences in environment variables* are... variable aterm xterm COLORFGBG= 'default;default' COLORTERM= rxvt-xpm PPID= 1505 1400 SHLVL= 3 2 WINDOWID= 44040194 41943058 * generated by executing the command "set" within aterm and xterm at the command prompt. any advice would be greatly appreciated.