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From: sdesmara@sobeco.com (s.desmarais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Meta key under RiscWindows 4.00
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.172658.11312@sobeco.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:26:58 GMT
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In <4967@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

>I just upgraded my RS2030 to RiscOS 4.52 and RiscWindows 4.00, and my
>the "Alt" doesn't work (ie it doesn't set the eighth bit) in xterms.
>It does work in emacs windows (though not in emacs inside an xterm).

We have both RiscWindows 4.0 and 3.20 (not sure of the last one).
3.xx translated "alt a" to "ESC a"  (2 characters, not 8 bits).
I just tried with 4.00, and "alt a" just gives "a".

	To see if it was a problem with only the alt key, or with 8 bits
characters in general, I tried mapping F1 to an 8 bits character using
"xmodmap -e 'keysym F1 = 0351'" (so F1 gives me an "e" with
an accute accent), and 4.0 just strips the 8th bit.  3.20 worked perfectly
well (verified using a simple C program).  I notice the same behavior as
you reported with gnuemacs.

By the way, my stty settings are: -parenb -parodd cs8

>Can someone suggest what's wrong?

Not me.  I simply add my voice to yours saying it's wrong.  You should send
a bug report describing this.

>-- Richard
>-- 
>Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
>AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
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