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6.2.14 EnableSC

Syntax:

EnableSC [string]

Example:

(The example from above will only look correct in the TeX (.DVI or .PS or .PDF) edition of this document.)

This keyword is only relevant on UNIX. On UNIX, when using a VT100, xterm, or similar terminal, Alt or Meta key combinations generate the same key codes like national characters with ASCII values greater than 127. This is a problem, because on the one hand, MsgEd TE relies on combinations of normal keys with Alt, but on the other hand, you probably want to use national special characters in your mail.

By default, the UNIX version of MsgEd TE enables all Alt key combinations and disables all national special characters.

You can revert this behaviour by specifying EnableSC without parameters. This will cause MsgEd TE to interpret all high ASCII keycodes as national special characters, instead of Alt key combination. You’ll then have to use the ESC key to emulate all Alt key cominations. This is probably what users of complete high ASCII alphabets, like the cyrillic alphabet, will wnat to do.

On the other hand, if your language only has few special characters, you can also use the EnableSC keyword to selectively enable some national special charcters. All special characters that occur in the string given as argument will be interpreted as charcters rather then Alt key combinations.

The example from above enables all German national charcters. The only relevant Alt key combination that you will loose by enabling those characters is Alt-V (“show notes”). This function is also available by pressing Alt-K (“show kludges”), so that isn’t a problem.

Note that you will have to use an editor that allows the input of national charcters in order to generate the necessary configuration file entry. vi should be able to do this, as well as joe -asis. If you are not able to type those characters in vi, you should not even try to type them in MsgEd TE …

If you need information on how to set up a FreeBSD system to correctly process special national characters, you can f‘req syscons.tgz at 2:2476/418.


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