[arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti [2011.12.14 1450 -0200]:
[...]
> I can see the characters just fine in your email, and I'm reading
> this in mutt running in an xterm.  My situation is that I don't want
> to type any of these characters but want them to display correctly.
> Following the information on
> 
> http://fedoraforums.org/form/archive/index.php/t-66116.html
> 
> and a few other google hits I've forgotten by now, I have the
> following in my .Xdefaults to get these characters to display fine
> while not producing any strange characters using e.g. Meta-A.
> 
> XTerm.utf8: 1
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
> XTerm*eightBitInput: false
> XTerm*eightBitControl: false
> XTerm*eightBitOutput: true
> 
> Look at the xterm manpage to see what these do.  If you don't use
> xterm but something else, I would suspect there are similar options
> you can set to get this to work.

As I mentioned, it _used_ to work in the terminals I have installed
(lxterminal & gnome-terminal).  It did so without any particular
configuration.  Now it has _stopped_ working in the terminals I have
installed, while it still works in other X programs (e.g. GTK stuff
like chromium).

Unfortunately it looks like I'm alone in this.

/M

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