On 7 November 2010 16:52, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> On 6 November 2010 17:00, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's a way of getting the ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8) entered >>> without dead-keys, etc. >> >> Under what conditions? If I set my keyboard to Greek, for example, so >> that I'm entering only non-ASCII characters with most keystrokes, >> uxterm faithfully shows Greek characters (with eightBitInput: false). >> Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I'd like to home in at the very least >> on an extremely clear explanation for the docs. > > It's in the manpage (though not pointing out explicitly that the conversion > is done at a point where it's useful for UTF-8).
Sorry, I must be being stupid, but can you please be explicit? I am trying to answer the question: "when is having eightBitInput: false a problem?". You answered "[when you want to get] ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8) entered without dead-keys, etc.". But when I have eightBitInput: false, I can quite happily enter non-ASCII characters (i.e. "ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8)"). I have tried reading the man page again, and I can't find anything that sheds light on this question. So, once more: under what conditions does setting eightBitInput: false prevent the straightforward input of non-ASCII characters? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinfogj2+uggmghavvdg_vkfco20pi1tger_g...@mail.gmail.com
