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Re: alt key


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: alt key
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:52:44 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:52:33AM -0500, Bob Rossi wrote:
> That's what I thought. This used to be the case for me as well. However,
> now when I run, it's not. Look at the example program. When I hit Alt-e,
> I expect, the escape key, followed bye e. However, I get,
> 
> Alt-e gives,
> 195
> 165
> Alt-f gives,
> 195
> 166
> Alt-g gives,
> 195
> 167
> 
> I can see a pattern, but wonder why it's printing this way.

Perhaps UTF-8 input for a program that's not expecting the separate bytes.
(verified by running vttest in uxterm).

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