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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:47:51AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:53:42PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > I'll try to reproduce this - but need to know
> > > >
> > > >         a) locale
> > > >         b) platform
> > > >         c) is this "vile" or "xvile", and
> > > >         d) is it built with curses/ncurses/Xaw/Xm
> > >
> > > locale:         everything is set to en_GB.UTF-8 (except LC_COLLATE=C)
> > > platform:       xubuntu 9.10 (Linux chris 2.6.31-16-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu 
> > > Dec 3 22:07:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
> > > vile/xvile:     vile, I don't have xvile 9.7x built yet
> > > screen:         ./configure --with-perl --with-screen=ncurses 
> > > --with-libdir-path=/usr/share/vile --with-startup-path=/usr/share/vile
> >
> > Try --with-screen=ncursesw
> >
> > For --with-screen=ncurses, you'll only get something that renders 8-bit
> > characters.  (I may have to refine things to ensure that 8-bit
> > curses doesn't display UTF-8).
> When do you ever go to sleep?!  :-)

I'm getting 7 hours/day, but do keep odd hours...

> I've just tried --with-screen=ncursesw, ./configure runs OK but make
> fails with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw".  ... but I do have
> libncursesw.so in /usr/lib.
>
> OK, it needs the libncursesw5-dev package installed as well as the
> libncurses5w package.  Now makes OK.
>
> .... and, yes, that's fixed it, thank you!
>
> It's so long since I built from source that I've forgotten all the
> little quirks.  I'm spoilt by pre-built stuff from ubuntu/debian.

sounds good.  I'll see how to make the configuration smarter, so it
doesn't misdisplay in 8-bit curses.

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