On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed > that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, > openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs. > > I can't remember whether they ever worked for me in emacs. is there a > trick -- something special that needs to go in my .init.el, for > instance? I've recently been messing with my config files, so I may > have screwed something up -- but the accents don't seem to work for me > on any of my machines, so I suspect the problem is more fundamental > than that. > > to be more specific, accents & umlauts display just fine, and typing > them also seems to work fine when xemacs is run without the -nw switch > also type them when running (x)emacs from the console. But in an > xterm, emacs seems to interpret the characters as control- or > meta-keystrokes of some kind.
I just done fighting with the same problem. One solution is to use aterm or rxvt. Usually, typing C-x <RET> k and selecting your keyboard coding solves the problem. For a more permanent fix, I put the following in /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm (which I had to create) and that solved the problem for me: *XTerm*eightBitInput: false *XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true HTH Joe -- Joseph Fahey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
