keyboard-coding-system

keyboard-coding-system is a variable defined in `mule.el'.
Its value is

utf-8-unix

Original value was


Documentation:
Specify coding system for keyboard input.
If you set this on a terminal which can't distinguish Meta keys from
8-bit characters, you will have to use ESC to type Meta characters.
See Info node `Terminal Coding' and Info node `Unibyte Mode'.

On non-windowing terminals, this is set from the locale by default.

Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
use either M-x customize or C-x RET k.

You can customize this variable.

This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in version 22.1 of Emacs.