Re: 8-bit characters input

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Check C-h l after hitting à to see what char sequence was really sent
> It seems that a C-v is sent instead of à.

Is that all?  There's a good chance that hitting à sends more than one char.

>> 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

> I tried setting it to utf-8 or latin-1, using both "M-x customize" and "C-x
> RET k", but nothing changed.

Yes, it looks like right now the problem is in the terminal
configuration itself.

>> 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)).

> Meta is already "assigned" to ESC here.

> What options/variables/customization group would you suggest to look at?

What terminal did you try this with?


        Stefan