From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: on keyboard behavior in emacs -nw Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:49:41 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bmnhkbne.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502751035 25352 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2017 22:50:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:50:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 15 00:50:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOBr-0006HX-0C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:50:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOBx-0005MP-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53193) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOBJ-0005LG-2o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOBG-0003bW-0R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41845 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOBF-0003aU-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhOB3-0003bX-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:49:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:+frraSDjI27czwDBuISEJ+8QxWs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114030 Archived-At: 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 letters and other char create letters with various accents or the like: M-x = ø M-a = á M-q = ñ Foreign (to an english speaker) language letters with accents and etc. Any one know what causes this? Wrong keyboard settings? ... I did run dpkg-reconfigure console-setup But just got the prompt back after a moment or two... I did run dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration And: /etc/default/keyboard shows # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page. XKBMODEL="pc104" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" BACKSPACE="guess" Restarted keyboard service but nothing changed. echo $LANG shows: en_US.UTF-8 echo $LC_COLLATE is just blank It must be some kind of env setting, but what and how to fix?