Re: Alt-o in xterm

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

kilgota banach math auburn edu wrote:
> 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.