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: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:44:51 -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 1176283739 32098 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2007 09:28:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:28:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 11:28:16 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 1HbUZA-0006AB-E6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HbUd9-0007L4-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!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: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:44:51 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KoL1VLvwLElbPwsfeLsf/BiRVQs= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-8vruT7N1VbSKtAvQDate55mkmlyhYMttVCvqT+8GPHGqSov4JSXmpRs5UAtEKZ+1WB+A4qSTcspGPo/!IBKX+wjhYLU16kuC5X20hWXNWOu1PZG8zWd6r9civbGcjjAJ3WHCyUSXsCcAuRYZJN8WQMOVJPiz!rzrewqBU8CDCtPEAmA== 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:146973 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:42577 Archived-At: >> 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