Re: Alt-o in xterm





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?

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.

Theodore Kilgore



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