Re: Alt-o in xterm

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:

> kilgota banach math auburn edu wrote:
> > 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.

That (having both alt-something and entering unicode) is what 
metaSendsEscape and altSendsEscape are supposed to help with...

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