Re: umlauts, accents in Xterm with (x)emacs

[Joseph Fahey <jfx@ifrance.com>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed
> that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash,
> openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs.
> 
> I can't remember whether they ever worked for me in emacs.  is there a
> trick -- something special that needs to go in my .init.el, for
> instance?  I've recently been messing with my config files, so I may
> have screwed something up -- but the accents don't seem to work for me
> on any of my machines, so I suspect the problem is more fundamental
> than that.
> 
> to be more specific, accents & umlauts display just fine, and typing
> them also seems to work fine when xemacs is run without the -nw switch
> also type them when running (x)emacs from the console.  But in an
> xterm, emacs seems to interpret the characters as control- or
> meta-keystrokes of some kind.

I just done fighting with the same problem. One solution is to use
aterm or rxvt. Usually, typing C-x <RET> k and selecting your keyboard
coding solves the problem.

For a more permanent fix, I put the following in
/etc/X11/Xresources/xterm (which I had to create) and that solved the
problem for me:

*XTerm*eightBitInput: false 
*XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true

HTH

Joe

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Joseph Fahey