help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: accents in xterm emacs


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: accents in xterm emacs
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:35:51 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean.magnan@bornier.net> writes:

> If the I type C-X ret k I have the message to set coding system, with
> "default: iso-latin-9" I just hit return and then my special characters are
> back, and to obtain M-X I have to type ESC-X (M-X makes the phi small
> letter).

Yes, your tty interprets M-<foo> as the character foo with the
eighth bit turned on.  (So M-g will produce ç I think.)

xterm can be configured to send ESC <foo> when you hit M-<foo>.  See
the eightBitInput ressource.

> When in gnus I still cannot see special char, but all what I described
> before works in gnus as in other programs. 

What do you see instead of the special chars?
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]