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:

    >> It's iso-8859/1 as expected.

    Aidan> Okay, beyond that the only thing I can suggest is

    Aidan>   1. xemacs -vanilla

    Aidan> Then, within that XEmacs:

    Aidan>   2. ESC : (gnuserv-start) RET

    Aidan> Then, from a terminal:

    Aidan>   3. gnuclient -nw

Indeed this worked, and brought me on the right track.

    Aidan> If the problem is no longer there in that context, which
    Aidan> I'm pretty sure will be the case, then it's provoked by
    Aidan> something in your init file. The traditional way to find
    Aidan> such problems if you're not sure where to start is to
    Aidan> temporarily remove half the file, restart, see if the
    Aidan> problem persists; if it does, the problem is in the half
    Aidan> you didn't remove. If it's gone, it's in the half you
    Aidan> removed. Then temporarily remove half of the half that gave
    Aidan> the problem, repeating the process until you find the line
    Aidan> that provokes it.

Looking though my initialization files, I found the following piece of
code:

(standard-display-european 1) 
(set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) 
                (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 
                'accept-8bit-input) 


Uncommenting this mad everything work fine. I don't remember where I
got that code from, but it's probably some years I've put it in, and
it doesn't seem necessary anymore. I guess I really need to work
through my init setup, and take all the old garbage out (using xemacs
since 15 years).

Anyway, many thanks for your very patient help.

Enjoy your week-end,

Roland