R-alpha: ISO Latin1 and Readline
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk
13 Jun 1997 15:55:38 +0200
Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> I think the trick is that you need to have the readline init file
> (INPUTRC, typically something like /etc/inputrc) specify
>
> # don't strip characters to 7 bits when reading
> set input-meta on
>
> # allow iso-latin1 characters to be inserted rather than converted to
> # prefix-meta sequences
> set convert-meta off
>
> # display characters with the eighth bit set directly rather than
> # as meta-prefixed characters
> set output-meta on
Exactly. One loses the Meta characters that way, unavoidable since
Meta works in xterms and other terminals by OR'ing characters with
0x128, so e.g. M-x == ø. No big deal, use ESC x instead. (Who uses
it anyway?)
> > Additional query: Should accented characters be allowed in variable
> > names?
>
> Not sure. Maybe yes so that e.g. if I had to impress someone in
> Austrian I could use "Größe" as a variable name ...
One less newbie error when teaching... Are there any arguments
*against* it?
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