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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:Thomas Dickey wrote:On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:Hi, In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same. Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an "I" with two dots above it (0xEF, LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS) UTF-8 locale i guess. On the linux console it gives ESC-o (0x1b6f) How can i get mc to work in a utf-8 X setup?man xterm (see eightBitInput, metaSendsEscape, altSendsEscape)In /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, i put: *eightBitInput: false and it works now. Thanks:)I am glad it works. Now, an interesting question might be what happens now if you type something like Alt-o at the command line, in a bare xterm which does not have mc running in it. On my system, I can still get the funny characters that way. Can you?
Now i get the same as on a linux console. Alt-o now gives esc-o (0x1b 0x6f) in a bare xterm (it just makes xterm beep).
I am merely curious. I do not use the funny character mappings for anything, myself. But I can imagine that someone might want to use those sometimes and use mc on other occasions. Thus, I find myself wondering whether*eightBitInput: false would turn that off completely, or not.
It seems it does. In vim, before i'd get "i" with diaeresis, now i get ^[o. In gvim, i still get "i" with diaeresis now. Obviously it would affect someone that wanted to see unicode chars in a terminal (non-X) editor.