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From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: accents in xterm emacs
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:35:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84lm11qyxk.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vg06wl8a.fsf@bornier.net

Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean.magnan@bornier.net> writes:

> If the I type C-X ret k I have the message to set coding system, with
> "default: iso-latin-9" I just hit return and then my special characters are
> back, and to obtain M-X I have to type ESC-X (M-X makes the phi small
> letter).

Yes, your tty interprets M-<foo> as the character foo with the
eighth bit turned on.  (So M-g will produce ç I think.)

xterm can be configured to send ESC <foo> when you hit M-<foo>.  See
the eightBitInput ressource.

> When in gnus I still cannot see special char, but all what I described
> before works in gnus as in other programs. 

What do you see instead of the special chars?
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-31 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-29 20:54 accents in xterm emacs Jean Magnan de Bornier
     [not found] ` <87bs1zfwp5.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org>
2003-01-29 22:33   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2003-01-30 15:51     ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-30 18:23       ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2003-01-31 12:35         ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-29 23:22 ` Alan Shutko
2003-01-30  6:35   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2003-01-30  8:22 ` Kai Großjohann

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