On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:10:49PM +0000, Marco De Vitis wrote: > Hi, > I've got a small annoyance in Etch, but I think it was there in Sarge, too. > > I connect to the Debian machine via ssh (usually from OSX Terminal, but > also from PuTTy on Windows the same happens). > > The machine has LANG="en_US.UTF-8". I need to type accented characters > from the ISO-8859-1 charset (such as "à" and "è"), and this setting > should allow me to do it, being UTF-8. > Indeed, I can happily type them on the command line, and I can see them > in filenames, but I cannot use them in Emacs (21.4.1) or other text > editors (tried vi and pico): it looks like some other kind of > non-printable code is inserted when I press one of those keys. > > Does anyone know how to fix it? Sounds like a FAQ to me, but I couldn't > find anything useful on Google today. > > -- > Ciao, > Marco. I recently started with the keymap with deadkeys and that seems to work. Havent tried it with emacs. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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