Re: [Nano-devel] the default whitespace indicators

[Jordi Mallach]

El dg 16 de 03 de 2014 a les 14:22 +0100, en/na Benno Schulenberg va
escriure:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 23:04, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > if you look in src/rcfiles.c and look for 'Two single-column characters 
> > required', you should be able to use that same logic to detect whether 
> > those 
> > two chars are OK to use.
> 
> I don't think that that logic is good enough for detecting the use of UTF-8 --
> there are probably some other encodings that use two bytes per character,
> meaning that the bytes that represent "»·" in UTF-8 will likely not produce
> "»·" in those other encodings.
> 
> But there is a way to properly check for the use of UTF-8, and nano already
> does it, thru 'nl_langinfo()', in src/nano.c, line 2144:
> 
>         if (locale != NULL && (strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET),
>                 "UTF-8") == 0)) {
> #ifdef USE_SLANG
>             SLutf8_enable(1);
> #endif
>             utf8_init();
>         }
> 
> So I've used the result of that to add this to SVN:
> 
> +       if (using_utf8()) {
> +           whitespace = mallocstrcpy(NULL, "»·");

Can I suggest not using middle dot, which is a valid character in
Catalan? Maybe a bullet, •,U+2022.

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