Alt-o in xterm

Russell Shaw rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Sun Jan 11 23:43:24 UTC 2009


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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)

In /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, i put:

   *eightBitInput: false

and it works now.
Thanks:)



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