Vincent Lefevre wrote: : Do they work in Mutt? And in the shell? And in cooked mode?
In the shell: yes, as far as I can see. In mutt: Umlaute are displayed correctly, but editing mails does not work since I use emacs -nw. That's the reason for my post. In mutt itself, e.g. when calling a function that wants input, those characters can be entered. Those characters also work for an ncursesw program that I'm writing, and apparently produce the correct two-byte sequence in my xterm. The Alt key (which I use as Meta) produces an Escape prefix for any character. : In fact, under Debian, you shouldn't need anything. For instance, : if I type "emacs -q blah" in a uxterm, the status bar says: : : -uuu:---F1 blah All L1 (Fundamental)--------------------- : : This is worth trying, in case the problem is due to some .emacs code. Here's my status line (emacs 21.4): $ emacs -nw -q blah --uu:---F1 blah (Fundamental)--L1--All-------------------- : You should also give the output of "locale charmap", but I assume it : will be UTF-8. It is. ************************** Henrik Enberg wrote: : I'm able to compose ... ~/.Xresources: : XTerm*metaSendsEscape: True : XTerm*eightBitInput: False I have: XTerm*eightBitInput: true XTerm*eightBitOutput: true I have added metaSendsEscape via xrdb -merge, but it had no effect; in fact, the Alt-key had been sending escape before. The problem seems to be, however, that Meta - " - a is also viewed by Emacs as an escape sequence, since the dec 195 164/oct 303 244/hex c3 a4 of the Umlaut-a is apparently seen as M-C (128 + 67 = 195) Capitalize-word and perhaps also as M-$ (128 + 36 = 164) Ispell-word but the latter is not evident since after a word has been capitalized the cursor is not on a word-character and the function ispell-word has no effect. So, I guess the problem is to get Emacs to view eight-bit characters not as ESC something, but take them for their true value. As far as I can see, I have no active resources in my ~/.emacs that could affect eight-bit input or character conversion in any way; all are commented out. Claus -- Claus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.clausfischer.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
