From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 8 bit input chars on tty broken Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:40:37 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207191340.g6JDebJ15674@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200207191256.g6JCuPa06692@beta.siege-engine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027086099 6714 127.0.0.1 (19 Jul 2002 13:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17VY0o-0001kA-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17VYDD-0005pJ-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:54:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VY0X-0000w1-00; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VXzr-0000vO-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6JDebJ15674; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:40:37 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Eric M. Ludlam" X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rum.cs.yale.edu id g6JDebJ15674 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5899 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5899 > I got a new CVS build running a couple days ago (21.3.50.1) after > running 21.1.x for quite some time. In the transition, 8 bit input > chars on a TTY lost their meta-ness. Thus, I press ALT-X which > creates an 8 bit character, and it inserts a circle with a line > through it instead of providing my favorite prompt. What happens if you do the same ALT-X in another application (like bash) = ? What happens if you use something like Multi_key a o (which should insert a latin-1 =E5 if you) or use some other non-Emacs input method to type a latin-1 char (in bash and in Emacs) ? What terminal is it ? What are your locale setting ? The reason you see this, is mentioned in the NEWS file: ** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your current locale settings. If it turns out that your terminal does not support the encoding implied by your locale (for example, it inserts non-ASCII chars if you hit M-i), you will need to add (set-keyboard-coding-system nil) to your .emacs to revert to the old behavior. -- Stefan