From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to make Alt key like X-windows in UTF-8 terminal? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:38:22 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87sis95ky0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <077bba13-8e96-42e1-9a57-1aacc7564db3@googlegroups.com> <929a1fe8-7abc-4396-8c22-adee687b6e17@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390848016 17219 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2014 18:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:40:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 19:40:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7r6Z-0002aW-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7r6Y-00041F-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:40:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:CHeZ9vZhDz0rkzWNuJNouvcf0A4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203436 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95705 Archived-At: fellswalker@gmail.com writes: > Code at http://pastebin.com/3q9Qn2qG also deals with > M-\, M-space, M-:, others. Here [1], it says: > The Linux kernel maintainers do not accept patches > for better Unicode support on the console because the > console is to be used as an emergency interface. The Linux people are almost always right (monolithic kernel, in C, in all essence Unix, "people want features", open source, etc.) so I suspect the Unicode chars can screw things up, so you can't use the console as a fallback, and that is why they don't want it. Check out: 'unicode-data', 'console-data', and 'fbterm' [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/23610/tty-unicode-problem -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573