From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 8-bit characters input Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:03:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176168978 24749 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2007 01:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:36:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 10 03:35:24 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 1Hb0by-000107-Vr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:37:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hb0fp-0004HW-QA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:41:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:03:30 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NLHREPGeFT+QBAGVVVsBOHLBoAU= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-6ry297doGkachYIJ/RSrMOliAmoMS8E7yHvG0oTnGnEoV2l5XmIdEtZzH7r6jL0Ujwqw4p6u4WLrUqE!nD2t5E+fyYVQXpAB3Zm9aRr9ePZddIJdUnn0L+9Wgx11IIOrcdvKZd+cFlyzln0tjcvM26h48rRg!GpDtjWFg0QyuQ+lu5w== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146935 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:42542 Archived-At: > 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. àèìòù). I simply want that an > "è" appears when I press the "è" 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 "à" the cursor moves down some > lines). Check C-h l after hitting à to see what char sequence was really sent to Emacs. You'll need both the set Emacs's keyboard-coding-system correctly (typically to utf-8 or latin-1) and to let your terminal application send the necessary info (among other things, you'll want it to use ESC to encode the meta modifier (sometimes referred to as the alt modifier)). Stefan