Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input

[David Kastrup]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 02.02.2005 um 13:38 schrieb David Kastrup:
>
>> In "Terminal" vs "in Shell"?  What are you doing?
>
> I am using Mac OS X 10.3.7, also known as Panther.

Which is not exactly renowned as being very POSIX-compliant.

> It has an application called "Terminal" or "Terminal.app" that is a
> terminal emulation. Inside it a tcsh is running -- I am too old to
> convert to bash so I stand to my very old decision to use a nice
> shell with history and substitution. And to GNU Emacs too.

So you are using some textterminal thingy that apparently is not
overly consistent with what the locale specifies.

Try a unicode-capable xterm instead.  Maybe that helps.

I am afraid your problem is more Mac-specific than Emacs-specific.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum