Re: [Nano-devel] the default whitespace indicators

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 0:48, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i would think something like > and . would be better for ASCII,
>
> Any more votes for ">" instead of ":"?
>
> > and » and · when in a multibyte locale.
>
> How to make nano check whether it's running in a multibyte
> locale?  Just have it look at the last four chars of LC_MESSAGES,
> to see whether it's "utf8"?

Actually, it seems that nano doesn't check locale.

If you're in a multibyte locale, there's a function (mbstrlen) that will 
cause » and · to evaluate to being two characters long, but otherwise, 
they'll evalute to four bytes long and cause an error:

if (mbstrlen(whitespace) != 2 || strlenpt(whitespace) != 2) {
  rcfile_error(N_("Two single-column characters required"));
}

Line 1045, rcfile.c

-Dan

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