Re: [PATCH] Remove ncurses meta() call.

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.