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From: cjh@hpausla.HP.COM (Clifford Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Recommendations for terminal with Meta key?
Message-ID: <380003@hpausla.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 88 01:12:26 GMT
References: <784@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>
Organization: HP Australian Software Operation
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The "Extend char" key on this isn't a true eighth bit setter; it just
changes the meaning of most of the keyboard so it creates characters in
the ROMAN8 character set, which is an 8 bit set.  So, M-c is not hex E4,
but rather B5, which is lower-case c cedille (cedille is an accent sort
of like a small upside down question mark below the letter that the
French use sometimes under the letter C) in the ROMAN8 character set.
It is possible to generate most of the Meta characters needed for
Gnuemacs, but you'll need a special set of mappings.

Some of the keys form a prefix for the next character, e.g. Extend char u
followed by a vowel sends the ROMAN8 code for the vowel with an umlaut
(two dots above the character), so for example M-u doesn't do anything
usable by itself.

This was typed on an HP2392A.

Clifford Heath, Hewlett Packard Australian Software Operation.
(UUCP: hplabs!hpfcla!hpausla!cjh, ACSnet: cjh@hpausla.oz)