Alt-o in xterm

[Russell Shaw]

kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Now i get the same as on a linux console. Alt-o now gives esc-o (0x1b 0x6f)
in a bare xterm (it just makes xterm beep).

> 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.

It seems it does. In vim, before i'd get "i" with diaeresis, now i get ^[o.

In gvim, i still get "i" with diaeresis now. Obviously it would affect
someone that wanted to see unicode chars in a terminal (non-X) editor.