Hey emacsers, posted this to debian-users but hadn't realized there was a separate emacs list, apologies for the cross-listing: 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 -- that is, when it opens up its own x-based 'frame' or window. I can 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. Unfortunately I often run emacs over ssh, and xterm is definitely my preferred mode. Any suggestions? thx, matt
