On 2015-08-10 13:02:07 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On my Debian/unstable machine, Alt-space gives a normal space in > > xterm. There must be something else in the user's config. > > Do you have any "Translation" among the xterm resources ? > > appres XTerm | fgrep ransl
Well, it seems that there's some confusion. By "Alt", I meant the ISO_Level3_Shift key, which is bound to the physical Alt and AltGr keys in my keyboard configuration. This is the typical key to get alternate characters. I have some translations, but whether I use them or not, I get the same result with this modifier: a normal space. Now, there's the Meta key (mod1, bound to the physical Windows key in my keyboard configuration), often called Alt in other applications, which gives the Escape character because I've set eightBitInput to false. Without this setting, I get ISO-8859-1 characters (translated into UTF-8): the ASCII character with the 8th bit set. For space, 0x20 is changed to 0x80|0x20 = 0xA0, which is the NO-BREAK SPACE in ISO-8859-1. IMHO, eightBitInput = true (the default) does not make much sense. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150810112822.ga25...@zira.vinc17.org
