Alt-o in xterm

[kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:

> 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:)

I am glad it works. Now, an interesting question might be what happens now 
if you type something like Alt-o at the command line, in a bare xterm 
which does not have mc running in it. On my system, I can still get the 
funny characters that way. Can you?

I am merely curious. I do not use the funny character mappings for 
anything, myself. But I can imagine that someone might want to use those 
sometimes and use mc on other occasions. Thus, I find myself wondering 
whether

   *eightBitInput: false

would turn that off completely, or not.

Theodore Kilgore