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Re: accented characters in an xterm
From: |
Dan Hitt |
Subject: |
Re: accented characters in an xterm |
Date: |
16 Dec 2002 04:48:51 -0500 |
Hi Eli,
Thanks for your post. Your solution (C-x RET t latin-1 RET) works
like a chamr for all the ssh cases i have, but it doesn't work
for kermit---although it is an improvement for kermit,
because at least the ? changes to a character (but without
the accent mark).
dan
In article <mailman.236.1040019333.19936.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
>
>On 15 Dec 2002, Dan Hitt wrote:
>
>> If i want to enter an a with an accent mark over it, i can type
>> control-x 8 ' a.
>>
>> Although this always seems to have the same behavior in terms
>> of what gets in a file---the byte 0x81 followed by the byte 0xe1---
>> what gets displayed is sensitive to how i'm accessing the xterm.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the pattern is, but, for example, if i'm connected
>> via kermit, i just get a question mark displayed. Or if i'm
>> connected via ssh to another host, i may just get a question mark.
>> But on the other hand, i can ssh from host A to B, then from that
>> session ssh from B to A, then run emacs, and in the double-ssh
>> environment, get the correct display, but not get the right display
>> going in a single ssh session.
>
>Does it help to say "C-x RET t latin-1 RET"?
>
>