Re: [Nano-devel] Bug/Feature request with whitespace handling

[Chris Allegretta]

Please do file a bug at Savannah Dan.  I honestly don't use UTF-8 at
all but am hoping some of our other regulars (Jordi?) does and can
comment here.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>
> Sorry for the top-post.  Any word/thoughts on this?  Anyone who can
> replicate?  Should I just go file a bug?
>
> -Dan
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I'm reluctant to file this immediately as a bug, but would like to instead
>> ask what more data I could provide.
>>
>> I have a UTF-8 terminal, and have put in my global nanorc:
>>
>> set whitespace "»·"
>>
>> Now, if you're on UTF8, you will see, essentially:
>>
>>>> and . (the . would be at mid-line height).  Both of these would be a
>>
>> single character wide.
>>
>> If, however, you're on some OTHER terminal type, you see this:
>>
>> http://www.gushi.org/nano_bug/nano_stuff.png
>>
>> (as reported by a user)
>>
>> However, nano throws up a warning that it can't parse that line because at
>> that point it's 4 chars wide.
>>
>> I might suggest that the "set whitespace" warning needs to be modified
>> such that it is encoding matched.
>>
>> set whitespace UTF-8 "xy"
>> set whitespace "ab"
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -Dan Mahoney
>>
>>
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