Re: [vile] utf-8 newbie

[Paul Fox]

hi tom --

here's a small vile.hlp patch that i think would have helped me figure
out what was needed for utf-8 to work.

paul
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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 55.6 degrees)


--- vile.hlp.orig       2012-05-10 18:03:01.000000000 -0400
+++ vile.hlp    2012-05-10 18:16:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -2509,18 +2509,21 @@
    above). Useful values for these settings are 160 and 255, which correspond
    to the printable range of the ISO-Latin-1 character set.
 
-   If your locale (e.g., the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable on a POSIX
-   platform) is configured properly, the "printing-low" and "printing-high"
-   settings are not needed. vile initializes its character type tables based
-   on the system. You can make finer adjustments to those tables as described
-   in "Character Classes".
+   If your locale is configured properly, the "printing-low" and
+   "printing-high" settings are not needed.  vile initializes its character
+   type tables based on the system.  You can make finer adjustments to those
+   tables as described in "Character Classes".
 
-   If your terminal (and locale) are set up to support UTF-8, vile can
-   display files which use that encoding. It can also display UTF-16 and
-   UTF-32 files using UTF-8. When the terminal/locale do not support UTF-8
-   vile displays the wide characters as hexadecimal codes, e.g., \u1234. Even
-   when vile can display wide characters, you can force it to display the
-   hexadecimal codes with the "unicode-as-hex" mode.
+   vile will check for locale configuration in the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE,
+   and LANG environment variables, in that order.
+
+   If your terminal and locale (as specified in the above variables) are set
+   up to support UTF-8, vile can display files which use that encoding.  It
+   can also display UTF-16 and UTF-32 files using UTF-8.  When the
+   terminal/locale do not support UTF-8 vile displays the wide characters as
+   hexadecimal codes, e.g., \u1234.  Even when vile can display wide
+   characters, you can force it to display the hexadecimal codes with the
+   "unicode-as-hex" mode.
 
    See UTF-8 Support versus Driver in config.doc for an overview of the
    terminal drivers.