[Konsole-devel] [konsole] [Bug 341209] New: Alt+character produces characters with diacritics (ÊÊËÊËÌÌ)

[Paul "LeoNerd" Evans]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 02:20:09 +0000
Constantine Tsardounis <costas.magnuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341209
> 
>             Bug ID: 341209
>            Summary: Alt+character produces characters with diacritics
>                     (ÊÊËÊËÌÌ)
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: unspecified
>           Platform: Archlinux Packages
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: keyboard
>           Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
>           Reporter: costas.magnuse at gmail.com
> 
> Created attachment 89707
>   --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=89707&action=edit
> vim rc
> 
> I do not know if it's a bug or a feature, but it does not happen with
> xterm so I decided to post it.

This is a bug in vim.

vim itself can't cope with the distinction between Alt+letter keys, and
Unicode characters. This has nothing to do with the terminal.

For more background on the subject, see my infamous "Dear Bram" thread
on vim-dev:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/2bp9UdfZ63M[1-25-false]

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

leonerd at leonerd.org.uk
http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS
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