From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco De Vitis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: 8-bit characters input Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:10:22 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175883262 29404 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 18:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:14:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 20:13:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZrQh-0000eH-5T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:36:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZrUB-0000zf-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!nntp.infostrada.it!twister1.libero.it.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070116 Thunderbird/2.0b2 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.32.170.248 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iol.it Original-X-Trace: twister1.libero.it 1175875822 151.32.170.248 (Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:10:22 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:10:22 MET DST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146857 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42465 Archived-At: Hi, I know this is a FAQ, but I've browsed for hours through the docs without finding any real solution. I can't input 8-bit chars in Emacs when I'm on the command line; especially, I need to type Italian accented chars (e.g. אטלעש). I simply want that an "ט" appears when I press the "ט" key; I want to avoid any deadkeys and such. Currently, instead, when I type one of those chars, it seems like some control code is inserted (e.g. when I press "א" the cursor moves down some lines). This applies to various situations: - when logging locally on a Debian Etch machine (Emacs 21.4.1, locale en_US.UTF-8); - when using locally a MacOS X Terminal (Emacs 21.2.1, locale it_IT.UTF-8); - when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from the same OSX Terminal using ssh; - when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from a Windows XP machine using PuTTy. In all those situations, I can happily input and view 8-bit chars on the bash command line, e.g. when reading files with less. But they stop showing when I use Emacs. To say the truth, they don't even work in other command line text editors such as vi or pico, so it might not be a strictly-emacs problem, but Emacs is my editor of choice in this situations so I need to fix it in there. On the other hand, if I launch X on the Debian machine and start Emacs in the GUI environment, accented chars work fine. By reading the docs, I tried setting some of the suggested options for similar problems, to no avail. I suspect that Emacs' docs regarding this subject are generally oriented towards more "exotic" configurations and needs than mine. Does anyone here have any clues on how to fix this problem? It would be very useful for me. Thanks. -- Ciao, Marco.