Bug#326200: xterm: please set eightBitInput: false by default so Alt is usable as such

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> On 6 November 2010 17:14, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > users be able to understand which setting they are likely to want, but
> > > also stop complaining about the default (as I am doing!). I'm also
> > > interested to know why this is the default in xterm, but not in
> > > gnome-terminal, konsole or unicode-rxvt. Is it the default in any
> > > other modern terminal?
> >
> > None of those are "modern" in the sense that you'd like to imply.
>
> I think that was a bad choice of word. By "modern", I meant "actively
> maintained at present".

In that case, gnome-terminal is debatable (it's being changed, but not
maintained except in the loosest sense of the term).

In either case, gnome-terminal and konsole haven't changed that part of
the design for a decade.

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