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Re: Accents through Mac OS Terminal
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Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Accents through Mac OS Terminal |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:13:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
googlegroups@juicer.orange-carb.org writes:
>> What terminal emulator do you use?
>>
>> I would advise you to upgrade to a more recent, (possibly second hand)
>> Macintosh, so you can run MacOSX.
>
> Sorry for the confusion. I'm on Mac OS X running Terminal.app.
Ah, good.
The problem is that emacs accepts by defaults 7-bit ASCII with the 8th
bit meaning Meta- is pressed.
So if you want to use the 8th bit to encode characters (be it
iso-8859-1 or multibyte like UTF-8), then you need to configure
Terminal.app to send an ESC for Meta- (you can do that in the Window
Preferences of Terminal.app, keyboard pane).
You should also configure the encoding used by Terminal.app, and set
the environment variables LC_ accordingly. For example, if you use
ISO-8859-1, you could set this environment variable:
LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1
export LC_ALL
emacs -nw -q
Normally, emacs should pickup these variables to decode the keyboard.
(Of course, substitute iso-8859-1 for the encoding you use and set in
the Window Preferences of Terminal.app; be sure to set the changes for
all the terminal windows).
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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Returns with gifts of plump birds,
Your foot just squashed one.
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