Re: [vile] Now I have a problem with xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote:

> Oh dear, I have another extended character problem, this time with xvile.
>
> I have built xvile from exactly the same patched 9.7za2 source that I
> just built vile from.
>
> When I enter £ (UK pound) signs (see, they work in vile!) I actually
> get £, that's displayed in xvile *and* actually in the file.  So this
> time it's not a display problem, it's a character entry issue.

It sounds as if xvile is putting UTF-8 codes into a buffer, but its
file-encoding is 8bit (will see - thanks)

> Entering accented characters seems to work fine, the only errors I can
> find are with the £ (UK pound sign) and ¬ (don't quite know what this
> is) which also gets an  (upper case A with circumflex accent) in front
> of it.
>
> As before pretty standard xubuntu 9.10 system, 64-bit.
>
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