From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: hitt@panix.com (Dan Hitt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: accented characters in an xterm Date: 15 Dec 2002 15:52:10 -0500 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039985803 1273 80.91.224.249 (15 Dec 2002 20:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Summary: control-x 8 accent-mark letter only intermittently works on xterm Keywords: xterm, control-x 8, accent mark 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 18NfoY-0000KP-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:56:42 +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 18NfnW-0005kf-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:55:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1039985531 11281 166.84.1.1 (15 Dec 2002 20:52:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:52:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108151 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:4680 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4680 Hi, If i want to enter an a with an accent mark over it, i can type control-x 8 ' a. Although this always seems to have the same behavior in terms of what gets in a file---the byte 0x81 followed by the byte 0xe1--- what gets displayed is sensitive to how i'm accessing the xterm. I'm not sure what the pattern is, but, for example, if i'm connected via kermit, i just get a question mark displayed. Or if i'm connected via ssh to another host, i may just get a question mark. But on the other hand, i can ssh from host A to B, then from that session ssh from B to A, then run emacs, and in the double-ssh environment, get the correct display, but not get the right display going in a single ssh session. I have vollowed Peter Wu's suggestion (posted in this news group) of trying emacs -q --no-site-file and this doesn't reveal a difference. There are version differences, but the earliest emacs i'm using is 20.7.1, and i always have the problem when i'm connected through kermit (independent of version). Thanks in advance for any advice. dan