Re: umlauts/special char through gnuclient -w/ssh
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:36:28AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Richard writes:
> I would be surprised if any Linux distribution does still use 7bit
> as default?
Agreed, but in that case I would imagine 8-bit characters are more
likely to be meta characters than non-ASCII, and there's no way to
determine what they are anyway.
I could imagine that at least for German users the current default is
unusable on terminal - is there some magic code that would change
the settings at least for LANG!=en_US?
> Otoh I do not think that many people expect the true meta key
work
> in a terminal.
I suspect that a lot of people over the age of, say, 45 do.
Hm.. do not think the terminals were 8 bit clean as long ago, not without
plenty of cutomisation. I have probably first used emacs shortly before 1990,
at that time an 8 bit clean terminal was something very special even in
Europe where it is nice to have.
With the mix of wildly different keyboards and terminals that was around
I never got used to the more special keys.
Whether or not the default is changed it should be much more obvious how
to change for the user.
Richard
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