Re: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw

[Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I see the phenomena in several recent installs of debian stable and 1
> of testing.
>
> In emacs -nw M-x, instead of giving the familiar `M-x' prompt it
> inserts a tiny char in the buffer that looks something like a tiny
> planet with with a ring around on forward leaning angle.
>
> In fact M+<many-keys> many letters and other char create letters with
> various accents or the like:
>
> M-x = ø
> M-a = á
> M-q = ñ

Do ESC x and so on work as expected?  What does C-h k M-x
(i.e. describe-key) say?

> Foreign (to an english speaker) language letters with accents and
> etc.
>
> Any one know what causes this?

My first thought was that Alt and AltGr had been swapped but then
AltGr-x is not usually ø.

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Ben.