From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 8-bit characters input Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:14:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176302307 23058 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2007 14:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:38:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 16:38:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hbdwc-0005GH-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:37:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hbe0f-0001vw-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:14:32 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VXDHT/pDcWsUKJCWjkDgPPbwGKo= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-chsnXtTdcumwO9CznkWC0nrr/i3C3xvhW4nWNHV4iShIhWBKA2x1TixqOlCsxgP6WW2tg3QSOlNcVFg!U93eVOg1wBOIvpt3BkBxR/XwmmFVRmGV0fOOyrciR5MA+khu3PtwotF9/xzzx/wlKhnz+MbbOdF9!tNCPRfCwNKMg1O2HPw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146982 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42586 Archived-At: >>> It seems that a C-v is sent instead of à. >> Is that all? There's a good chance that hitting à sends more than one char. > If I just open a new file ("emacs test"), press à, and then press C-h l, > here is what I see in the Help buffer: > 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, it looks like right now the problem is in the terminal >> configuration itself. > But the problem happens in two different remote terminals (and also > locally), and the same 8-bit chars work fine on the command line in those > same terminals... >> What terminal did you try this with? > OSX Terminal, which is configured as xterm-color. I'm not sure what you mean by "configured as 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? Stefan