Re: [vile] Accented characters (or not) in 9.7x

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:

> Having got my vile 9.7x installed and mostly working I just tried to
> send an E-Mail in French.  Accented characters no longer work as they
> did.
>
> When I enter an accented character, either with the vile compose key
> or with the X compose key it results in a very odd sequence of
> characters being displayed. For example when I enter an e with an
> acute accent I see (in vile):-
>
>    M-CM-)

thinking about it....

The "M-" sounds like (Solaris) curses.  There are two flavors of that; the 
default one doesn't support UTF-8 and the other in /usr/xpg4 is somewhat 
usable, for vile, at any rate: the Solaris getch was broken quite a while 
ago due to improper ifdef'ing of things related to timeouts (vile's not 
using it, but almost all curses apps do).  There might be some workable 
version in the interminable series of updates past Solaris 10.

I did check Solaris a while ago, and recalled that it worked with the xpg4
library (though the handling of color was unsatisfactory).  ncursesw (wide
flavor) at hand seems to handle data as I'd expect.

To get the configure script to pick out the xpg4 flavor on Solaris, I 
preset the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables, e.g.,

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# for configuring to use Solaris' X/Open curses
TOP=/usr/xpg4

CPPFLAGS="-I$TOP/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED"
LDFLAGS="-R$TOP/lib -L$TOP/lib"
LIBS="-lcurses"

export CPPFLAGS
export LDFLAGS
export LIBS

./configure $*
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