Re: xterm setup doesn't allow 8-bit - not sure if this is a bug.

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "RB" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

 RB> A Debian user reported a bug that didn't seem like a bug to me, but I
 RB> thought I should check.

 RB> This is reported against

 RB> GNU Emacs 20.7.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Fri Dec 15 2000 on 
raven

 RB> From: sacha@softjoys.ru
 >> If I run emacs in xterm (e.g. in ssh session) I am not able to make
 >> it printing 8-bit text I type. As I figured out, this is caused by
 >> incomplete terminal setup. To solve the trouble one need to evaluate
 >> lines from /usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/term/linux.el (actually, the
 >> latter will do)

 RB> Thanks

It's not entirely clear, but I assume the issue is the use of
`set-input-mode', which is documented, and the fact that Emacs doesn't
know how the xterm is set up.  Loading linux.el is presumably wrong in
a Russian environment.