Re: Accents through Mac OS Terminal

[Stefan Monnier]

>> No, I think it's rather the first item in the Emulation group: non-
>> ASCII characters to Esc sequences.

> I've tried with that toggled on and off. With it on I get a beep, with
> it off I get a tab for "option-e e" for example, other accents produce
> different effects.

> In vi and at the shell this setting does not produce a difference.
> Accents work both with and without this option on.

> It seems as if emacs is just trying to interpret this character very
> differently than the shell or vi. Is it not possible to turn off
> emacs' interpretation of the character and just accept it as is?

You want to set your keyboard-coding-system:

  M-x set-keyboard-coding-system RET utf-8 RET

the coding system you want to use is utf-8 because that's what Mac OS X's
Terminal uses by default.  Problem is: Emacs-20.7 does not support utf-8.
Emacs-21.2 supports it to some extent, so it should work there.
You may also need to set your terminal-coding-system in order to display
those chars correctly.


        Stefan