From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [128.61.1.1]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA15322 for ; Thu, 18 May 1995 20:34:31 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA25055 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Thu, 18 May 1995 06:35:05 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02147; Thu, 18 May 1995 06:33:53 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Resent-Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:18:07 +0200 (MET DST) Old-Return-Path: Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:18:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Jozsef Kadlecsik To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: ISO Latin [12] characters and zsh In-Reply-To: <4552.9505180948@pyro.swan.ac.uk> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-Id: <"LxyAC2.0.AX.V9okl"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/4 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On Thu, 18 May 1995 P.Stephenson@swansea.ac.uk wrote: > kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I cannot type ISO Latin-[1|2] characters at the prompt of zsh. I was > > told that it's impossible to type in these extra characters - is it true? > > Not completely, at least if you have an xterm, but it's a bit hit and > miss even there. You can enable 8 bit mode (which you need for the -m > flag of bindkey), then type ^V, then some key with the meta key > pressed down. For example, small e with an acute accent is \C-v\M-i > (in Emacs language), and holding down shift at the same time has the > obvious effect. And what is the solution if the keys are remapped by xmodmap? Zsh beeps if I press the key of aacute, for example. On Linux I remapped the keys of the console also, so in an editor I can type in everything in character mode. But typeing at the prompt zsh beeps as in xterm... Best regards, Jozsef - **************************************************************************** Address: P.O.B 49 Budapest 1525 Hungary Hungarian Academy of Sciences Phone : +36 (1) 169 9499 Central Research Institute for Physics Fax : +36 (1) 169 6567 E-mail : kadlec@sunserv.kfki.hu kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu ****************************************************************************