Re: sending/receiving UTF-8 characters from terminal to program

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > > May be you need to specify -u8 option or utf8 resource?
> >
> > That would work. So would running uxterm instead of xterm, but, all of
> > these mess-up command-line editing: Alt+key is converted into a char.
> > code instead of an ESC+key sequence.
>
> perhaps you're referring to eightBitInput (see manpage)

That seems to get set when running as uxterm/UTF-8 locale. However, 
`XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' (which I have set for XTerm, but, not for
UXTerm) fixes things right back, so it's all OK :)

> > XTerm*locale: true
>
> that's redundant, since the default "medium" will give the same effect :-)

Great! That's something I didn't know. Thanks, Tom.

Cheers,
-RVP