Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such
On 7 November 2010 16:52, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> On 6 November 2010 17:00, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's a way of getting the ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8) entered
>>> without dead-keys, etc.
>>
>> Under what conditions? If I set my keyboard to Greek, for example, so
>> that I'm entering only non-ASCII characters with most keystrokes,
>> uxterm faithfully shows Greek characters (with eightBitInput: false).
>> Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I'd like to home in at the very least
>> on an extremely clear explanation for the docs.
>
> It's in the manpage (though not pointing out explicitly that the conversion
> is done at a point where it's useful for UTF-8).
Sorry, I must be being stupid, but can you please be explicit? I am
trying to answer the question: "when is having eightBitInput: false a
problem?". You answered "[when you want to get] ISO-8859-1 (or
equivalents in UTF-8) entered without dead-keys, etc.". But when I
have eightBitInput: false, I can quite happily enter non-ASCII
characters (i.e. "ISO-8859-1 (or equivalents in UTF-8)").
I have tried reading the man page again, and I can't find anything
that sheds light on this question.
So, once more: under what conditions does setting eightBitInput: false
prevent the straightforward input of non-ASCII characters?
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