Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 2/7 Previous Document: 33) Where can I find the xterm control sequences? Next Document: 35) Why are my xterm menus so small (sic) ? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge In order to use special characters such as the o-umlaut, you need to "stty pass8" (you may need "stty -parenb -istrip cs8" on strictly-POSIX systems) but also to use a charcell ISO8859 font, such as XTerm*font: -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 XTerm*boldfont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 [The family is intentionally unspecified in this example.] In addition, you may want to set this in your shell: setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1 For a given character above 127, you can determine the key to use with the Alt modifier by finding the equivalent character below 127 (try using `man ascii`). For example, o-umlaut (v) is Alt-v and the section character (') is Alt-'. [thanks to Greg Holmberg (greg%thirdi@uunet.uu.net) and Stephen Gildea (gildea@x.org); 6/92] User Contributions:Top Document: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 2/7 Previous Document: 33) Where can I find the xterm control sequences? Next Document: 35) Why are my xterm menus so small (sic) ? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
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