Bug#574396: xterm: meta no longer sends escape even with eightBitInput: false
Package: xterm
Version: 256-1
Severity: normal
My X resources set XTerm*eightBitInput: false, because (as noted in
#326200 and #534192) that's generally a saner choice nowadays.
However, a recent upgrade (presumably to xterm itself) broke that;
alt-key combinations now yield non-ASCII characters rather than the
expected escape sequences, which I have to remind myself to type
explicitly. :-/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libutempter0 1.1.5-2 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.5+3 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.5+5 X Window System utility programs m
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.1 Cyrillic fonts for X
-- no debconf information
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