Alt-o in xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:

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>
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same.
>>> 
>>> Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an "I" with
>>> two dots above it (0xEF, LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS)
>>> UTF-8 locale i guess. On the linux console it gives ESC-o (0x1b6f)
>>> 
>>> How can i get mc to work in a utf-8 X setup?
>> 
>> man xterm (see eightBitInput, metaSendsEscape, altSendsEscape)
>
> Specifically, it is altSendsEscape that needs to be set. This can be done 
> most easily by creating a file in your home directory which is called
>
> ..Xdefaults
>
> and in it you put the contents
>
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true

one of those (altSendsEscape or metaSendsEscape), depending on how your
keyboard and xmodmap are setup.

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