On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:15:07AM +0100, Joseph Fahey wrote: > 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? > > > > 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 >
Hey there, thanks for the hints, but I didn't find they worked for me in xemcs, which is what I normally use (mostly b/c gnuclient works better than emacsclient for my purposes). I should be clear here that my problem was really only with the emacsen, not, say, with the xterm itself, which works fine at the bash prompt. Instead, I now have the following line in my .xemacs/init.el: (set-input-mode nil nil 'please-leave-8-bit-chars-alone-thankyouverymuch) this is most likely xemacs-specific, but it works GREAT there! thanks! matt
