Re: 8-bit characters input

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

>>> 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.
> If I just open a new file ("emacs test"), press à, and then press C-h l,
> here is what I see in the Help buffer:

> C-v C-h l

Hmm... that's odd.. And that's with OSX's Terminal.app?
I get full utf-8 coding there, without having changed any part of the config.

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

> But the problem happens in two different remote terminals (and also
> locally), and the same 8-bit chars work fine on the command line in those
> same terminals...

>> What terminal did you try this with?
> OSX Terminal, which is configured as xterm-color.

I'm not sure what you mean by "configured as xterm-color".

> I now tried also from PuTTy (configured as xterm) on a Windows machine, and
> hitting à appears to send different stuff:

> M-C M-SPC C-h l

That looks much better.  Actually it looks almost like utf-8.  Have you
tried C-x RET k utf-8 RET when logged in this way?


        Stefan