Package: xterm Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Severity: wishlist Please set eightBitInput: false by default so that, as in konsole and gnome-terminal, Alt+letter combinations work in, for example, bash, out of the box.
(I hope this is the right place to attack this problem; I discussed it with Thomas Dickey at some length to clarify my understanding of what's going on.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Athena widget set library ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X pixmap library ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System client data -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]