From: Marco De Vitis <starless@spin.it>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: 8-bit characters input
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:10:22 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OhuRh.991$R_5.24155@twister1.libero.it> (raw)
Hi, I know this is a FAQ, but I've browsed for hours through the docs
without finding any real solution.
I can't input 8-bit chars in Emacs when I'm on the command line;
especially, I need to type Italian accented chars (e.g. àèìòù). I simply
want that an "è" appears when I press the "è" key; I want to avoid any
deadkeys and such.
Currently, instead, when I type one of those chars, it seems like some
control code is inserted (e.g. when I press "à" the cursor moves down
some lines).
This applies to various situations:
- when logging locally on a Debian Etch machine (Emacs 21.4.1, locale
en_US.UTF-8);
- when using locally a MacOS X Terminal (Emacs 21.2.1, locale it_IT.UTF-8);
- when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from the same OSX
Terminal using ssh;
- when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from a Windows XP
machine using PuTTy.
In all those situations, I can happily input and view 8-bit chars on the
bash command line, e.g. when reading files with less. But they stop
showing when I use Emacs.
To say the truth, they don't even work in other command line text
editors such as vi or pico, so it might not be a strictly-emacs problem,
but Emacs is my editor of choice in this situations so I need to fix it
in there.
On the other hand, if I launch X on the Debian machine and start Emacs
in the GUI environment, accented chars work fine.
By reading the docs, I tried setting some of the suggested options for
similar problems, to no avail. I suspect that Emacs' docs regarding this
subject are generally oriented towards more "exotic" configurations and
needs than mine.
Does anyone here have any clues on how to fix this problem? It would be
very useful for me. Thanks.
--
Ciao,
Marco.
next reply other threads:[~2007-04-06 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 16:10 Marco De Vitis [this message]
2007-04-06 17:38 ` 8-bit characters input Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1815.1175881310.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-06 21:30 ` Marco De Vitis
2007-04-06 21:36 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1819.1175895648.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-07 0:03 ` Marco De Vitis
2007-04-09 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-09 23:18 ` Marco De Vitis
2007-04-11 3:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-11 8:59 ` Marco De Vitis
2007-04-11 11:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-04-11 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-12 15:32 ` Marco De Vitis
2007-04-12 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-13 6:38 ` Marco De Vitis
[not found] ` <mailman.1946.1176292242.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-12 14:58 ` Marco De Vitis
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