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8-bit characters input


From: Marco De Vitis
Subject: 8-bit characters input
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:10:22 GMT
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Hi, I know this is a FAQ, but I've browsed for hours through the docs without finding any real solution.

I can't input 8-bit chars in Emacs when I'm on the command line; especially, I need to type Italian accented chars (e.g. àèìòù). I simply want that an "è" appears when I press the "è" key; I want to avoid any deadkeys and such. Currently, instead, when I type one of those chars, it seems like some control code is inserted (e.g. when I press "à" the cursor moves down some lines).

This applies to various situations:
- when logging locally on a Debian Etch machine (Emacs 21.4.1, locale en_US.UTF-8);
- when using locally a MacOS X Terminal (Emacs 21.2.1, locale it_IT.UTF-8);
- when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from the same OSX Terminal using ssh; - when logging remotely on that same Debian machine from a Windows XP machine using PuTTy.

In all those situations, I can happily input and view 8-bit chars on the bash command line, e.g. when reading files with less. But they stop showing when I use Emacs. To say the truth, they don't even work in other command line text editors such as vi or pico, so it might not be a strictly-emacs problem, but Emacs is my editor of choice in this situations so I need to fix it in there. On the other hand, if I launch X on the Debian machine and start Emacs in the GUI environment, accented chars work fine.

By reading the docs, I tried setting some of the suggested options for similar problems, to no avail. I suspect that Emacs' docs regarding this subject are generally oriented towards more "exotic" configurations and needs than mine.

Does anyone here have any clues on how to fix this problem? It would be very useful for me. Thanks.

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Ciao,
  Marco.


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