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Re: accented characters in an xterm
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: accented characters in an xterm |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 08:15:08 +0200 (IST) |
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"?