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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: accented characters in an xterm
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:15:08 +0200 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021216081427.5161G-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <atiq1q$kce$1@panix1.panix.com>


On 15 Dec 2002, Dan Hitt wrote:

> If i want to enter an a with an accent mark over it, i can type
> control-x 8 ' a.
> 
> Although this always seems to have the same behavior in terms
> of what gets in a file---the byte 0x81 followed by the byte 0xe1---
> what gets displayed is sensitive to how i'm accessing the xterm.
> 
> I'm not sure what the pattern is, but, for example, if i'm connected
> via kermit, i just get a question mark displayed.  Or if i'm
> connected via ssh to another host, i may just get a question mark.
> But on the other hand, i can ssh from host A to B, then from that
> session ssh from B to A, then run emacs, and in the double-ssh
> environment, get the correct display, but not get the right display
> going in a single ssh session.

Does it help to say "C-x RET t latin-1 RET"?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-16  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-15 20:52 accented characters in an xterm Dan Hitt
2002-12-16  6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.236.1040019333.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-12-16  9:48 ` Dan Hitt
2002-12-16 14:45   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-12-17  9:21     ` Dan Hitt
2002-12-17 10:56       ` Kai Großjohann

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