gnuclient / display special characters in tty

[Roland Fehrenbacher]

>>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

    Aidan>  Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Roland
    Aidan> Fehrenbacher:

    >> I don't have a font named "Luxi Mono". But using any of the
    >> fonts available doesn't make a difference. On the command line
    >> I can type äöü etc.

    Aidan> Right, so it's not the font that's the problem.

    Aidan> What exactly do the control characters look like? \337 for
    Aidan> a sharp S, or M-_?
    >> It's \237 for a sharp S.

    Aidan> Now, _that_ is weird. What does F1 v ctl-arrow RET give you
    Aidan> for the value of the variable? If something other than
    Aidan> iso-8859/1, try setting it to that:

    Aidan> ESC : (setq ctl-arrow 'iso-8859/1) RET

It's iso-8859/1 as expected.

    Aidan> and see if that makes a difference. But iso-8859/1 is its
    Aidan> default value, so this will only help if it's been set in
    Aidan> your init.el.