Re: [vile] :map and unicode

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Christopher Illies wrote:

> Here is an example of what happens:

thanks (that looks detailed enough - will see)

> Start a new file:
> > vile test
> In vile set the file encoding:
> :set file-encoding utf-8
> ....then enter the first unicode character directly:
> "i","^V","u","0","2","1","9","return","escape"
> ....enter the mapping:
> ":","m","a","p","!"," ","^V","^K","s",",","
> ","^V","u","0","2","1","9","return"
> ....enter the character as digraphs:
> "i","^K","s",",","escape"
> .... exit vile with ":wq"
>
>
> Now this is how the file looks like:
> > cat test
> ș
> ￈ﾙ
>
> > hexdump test
> 0000000 99c8 ef0a 88bf beef 0a99 000a
> 000000b
>
> The correct ş character entered when in input mode, but something
> strange happens when going through the mapping, at least on my
> system. As mentioned above, this is FreeBSD-7, locale is set to
> "en_US.UTF-8".
>
> Christopher

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