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



On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:

On 6 November 2010 17:00, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote:
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Reuben Thomas wrote:

Why do some users want it the other way? I'm still looking for a
reason (other than the one than Jonathan quoted about bash, which

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).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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