Re: emacs -nw and accented characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Joel Smith <joelvsmith@earthlink.net>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:17:55 GMT
> 
> i use emacs 21.3 and i thought i'd try to use
> 
> aterm -tr -e emacs -nw & 
> 
> to get transparent version of emacs.  the only problem is that
> accented characters in the emacs show up garbled, but in aterm they
> appear fine.  in the standard X version accented characters are fine
> as well.  is there anything i can do to see the accented characters?

Try setting the terminal coding system (C-x RET t) to something
sensible.