Alt-o in xterm

[Russell Shaw]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>> kilgota at banach.math.auburn.edu wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> That (having both alt-something and entering unicode) is what 
> metaSendsEscape and altSendsEscape are supposed to help with...

Ok, i now have:

   XTerm*altSendsEscape: true

in ~/.Xresources (on debian)

Also have to xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources when changing things.