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

[rjs@cs.hut.fi (Riku Saikkonen)]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>In other words, only xterm, kterm, mlterm and xvt would require a
>patch, and in all cases it would be simply to reverse an existing
>default setting.

There are a few more terminals to add to your list of Meta-key
behaviors: the text consoles of the kernels supported by Debian.

Linux text console: false

(That is, by default Alt+w sends ^[w and not the DIVISION SIGN
character, at least on my i386 system. This appears to be changeable via
setmetamode(1), which uses the KDSKBMETA ioctl documented in
console_ioctl(4). I did not find the smm or rmm terminfo entries for
linux, nor code that would implement such escape sequences to change the
meta mode. I think the default is set in #define KBD_DEFMODE in
linux/drivers/char/keyboard.c (search in the file for the two
occurrences of "VC_META").)

I don't have a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD system to test on, nor Debian
GNU/Hurd. Maybe someone else could test those for completeness?

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