Re: [vile] vile-9.6j.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> > That jogs my mind a little here - an assumption built into the locale
> > code that stripping ".UTF8" off will yield a "narrow" locale.  But I
> > seem to recall that it's an alias which usually but not always gives
> > that result.
>
>
> > Here's what I have in my /etc/locale.gen for nl_NL and en_US lines:
> >
> > nl_NL ISO-8859-1
> > nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8
> >
> > en_US ISO-8859-1
> > en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15
> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> Here is mine:
>
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8
>
> So maybe that's why the normal latin{1,9} stuff isn't working?

yes - I don't have the whole picture in my head, but not having the narrow 
locale installed will prevent vile from constructing that. Since I'm 
developing both wide/narrow code for ncurses, etc., I install the useful 
flavors of whatever locales I'm testing. So it "just works" when I run 
vile.

For this situation, it would be reasonable to have vile make a fallback to 
ISO-8859-1. (I have in mind that the Cyrillic stuff may need some 
attention as well).

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