Re: accents in xterm emacs

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

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

> My emacs uses iso-8859-15 coding and this works nicely when in X. But when
> I start it in an xterm with "-nw" the following problems appear:
> -When I write letters with  french accents like é or à emacs does some
> strange moves, and my letters do not appear on the screen, whatever kind
> of program I use.

You need to tell Emacs that your kbd produces iso-8859-15
characters.  Type C-x RET k to do that.

> -When I read files I see the accents in all cases except when reading
> messages in gnus: accented letters there are replaced by question marks.
> I wish I could use emacs -nw as easily as emacs!

You need to tell Emacs that your terminal can display iso-8859-15
characters.  Type C-x RET t to do that.

If you choose the right locale, then Emacs will know both things and
you don't need to tell it.  That's why I started using
LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro recently.

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