Re: accented characters in an xterm

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 15 Dec 2002, Dan Hitt wrote:

> If i want to enter an a with an accent mark over it, i can type
> control-x 8 ' a.
> 
> Although this always seems to have the same behavior in terms
> of what gets in a file---the byte 0x81 followed by the byte 0xe1---
> what gets displayed is sensitive to how i'm accessing the xterm.
> 
> I'm not sure what the pattern is, but, for example, if i'm connected
> via kermit, i just get a question mark displayed.  Or if i'm
> connected via ssh to another host, i may just get a question mark.
> But on the other hand, i can ssh from host A to B, then from that
> session ssh from B to A, then run emacs, and in the double-ssh
> environment, get the correct display, but not get the right display
> going in a single ssh session.

Does it help to say "C-x RET t latin-1 RET"?