Re: can't type high-bit characters in xterm

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: 24 Jun 2004 18:07:19 GMT

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:27:48 GMT, Hactar staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> In article
> <slrncdjj01.uq.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org>,
> Dances With Crows <daSPANnceswithcroTRAPws@usa.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:45:25 GMT, Hactar staggered into the Black Sun
>> and said:
>> > When I type above-ASCII characters (alt-b, alt-c, etc.) into xterm
>> > or the console, it beeps sometimes and won't display them.
>> Alt+[A-Z] key combinations are often intercepted by window managers
>> or X applications themselves. If you want to enter non-ASCII
>> characters like é ç £ ÿ, use the Multi_key. I've written about this
> Changed $LANG from en_US.UTF-8 to en_US; I have half a mind to change
> it to "C"; if this doesn't fix things, I may.

If LANG eq "C", Multi_key won't work at all.

>> The console is totally different from X; type Alt+NNN to get
>> character number NNN.
> I'm using the numbers over a (US) keyboard, in decimal. If I use the
> left alt, bash switches to an "(arg: )" prompt, and whatever number I
> type is entered in the blank. If I use the right alt, I get some
> strange characters, as if I'm getting shift-numbers from some other
> key layout. What am I doing wrong?

I got the same thing when I tried this using left-Alt and the numbers in
the row above the QWERTY. If I use left-Alt and the numeric keypad, it
works properly. Strange... well, I don't use the virtual consoles at
all since I have konsole and xterm, but maybe this will help. 

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