>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Roland
Aidan> Fehrenbacher:
> I don't have a font named "Luxi Mono". But using
any of the
> fonts available doesn't make a difference. On the command line
> I can type äöü etc.
Aidan> Right, so it's not the font that's the problem.
Aidan> What exactly do the control characters look like? \337 for
Aidan> a sharp S, or M-_?
> It's \237 for a sharp S.
Aidan> Now, _that_ is weird. What does F1 v ctl-arrow RET give you
Aidan> for the value of the variable? If something other than
Aidan> iso-8859/1, try setting it to that:
Aidan> ESC : (setq ctl-arrow 'iso-8859/1) RET
It's iso-8859/1 as expected.
Aidan> and see if that makes a difference. But iso-8859/1 is its
Aidan> default value, so this will only help if it's been set in
Aidan> your init.el.