Re: 8-bit characters input

[Marco De Vitis <starless@spin.it>]

Il 11/04/2007 16:14, Stefan Monnier ha scritto:

>> C-v C-h l
> 
> Hmm... that's odd.. And that's with OSX's Terminal.app?
> I get full utf-8 coding there, without having changed any part of the config.

Yes, OSX's Terminal.app.
I actually have customized the Terminal config somehow a long time ago, 
to be able to correctly input and read utf-8 in Terminal itself...

> I'm not sure what you mean by "configured as xterm-color".

I mean that OSX's Terminal is set, through its preferences, to declare 
the terminal type as xterm-color. Or, in other words, that the env var 
$TERM is set to "xterm-color".

>> I now tried also from PuTTy (configured as xterm) on a Windows machine, and
>> hitting à appears to send different stuff:
> 
>> M-C M-SPC C-h l
> 
> That looks much better.  Actually it looks almost like utf-8.  Have you
> tried C-x RET k utf-8 RET when logged in this way?

I did now, and indeed it works!
And then... it also works in Terminal.app, as long as I open 
Terminal.app's window preferences and deactivate the "Escape non-ASCII 
chars" option in the Emulation section; indeed, when this option is not 
active, pressing "à" in emacs sends the same codes which were sent using 
PuTTy.

So, I can now use 8-bit chars in emacs by putting 
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
in my ~/.emacs file, and deactivating that Terminal option when I'm on 
OSX; the only problem is that I need that option to correctly input 
8-bit chars in Terminal's "normal" usage, i.e. when using it locally, 
without connecting to a remote machine... I'll try to live with it.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Ciao,
   Marco.