On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 13:20 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
xterm does the same thing, if you remove all its configuration settings and run it in a utf-8 locale: converting Alt-p to 0xF0 and then utf-8 encoding and sending that to mutt as two bytes.
Oh. Well, clearly it's wrong for any terminal emulator to do both UTF-8 and the eighth-bit-meta hack. They're incompatible.
I think the eighth-bit-meta hack originated with ASCII, where that bit is not used for anything else.
