Gnome Terminal and numeric keypad problems

[Chris Allegretta <chrisa asty org>]

Hello,

	Someone just pointed out to me that my editor (nano) doesn't
work with the numeric keypad (i.e. it doesnt get numbers back, just
odd data) in the gnome terminal.  I know it works for xterm, aterm,
rxvt, Linux console, etc, but this has me confused now.  Does gnome
terminal do something particularly non-standard with the keypad or
something, or is nano assuming something that other terminals will allow
but gnome terminal is strict about?

Here's a sample of the data I get when using the keypad under gnome
terminal and nano (not that num-lock *is* turned on :-) :

Keypad # 2, 4, 6, 8, give Alt-O followed by a letter, r, t, v, or x
respectively.
The rest of the keys give numbers around the 350 range.  

My $TERM appears to be set to xterm, which seems logical.  If this is
something known with gnome-terminal and ncurses, I apologize for not
being in the know already :>  I dont think nano does anything
non-standard or unusual, it calls keypad() at initialization
and so forth... Any help would be appreciated.

[P.S. Not subscribed to the list]

Chris A
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