Re: Alt-o in xterm
- From: Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>
- Cc: mc gnome org
- Subject: Re: Alt-o in xterm
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:26:45 +1100
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.
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