On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 01:14:51PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
I'm trying to debug exactly what it's doing on foot and xterm. It doesn't seem to be simply flipping bit-8 on, because setting $meta_key isn't fixing the problem. I haven't had time yet to look into it deeply, but I will try this weekend.
Ah, I figured out what foot is doing with meta enabled, (and xterm without any metaSendsEscape settings).
If I type Alt-p, the terminal converts 'p', 0x70, to 0xF0, by flipping the high bit. But then it encodes that in utf-8 and sends that to mutt. So mutt receives 0xC3 0xB0 in two getch() calls.
It's a mess. Mutt has no business enabling this mode, and $meta_key isn't a solution since it goofs up typing utf-8 at the prompt.
I'm actually pondering pushing this commit to stable and releasing it with 2.4.1. Feedback?
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