Re: [vile] Making UTF-8 default

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > How do I tell vile (9.6) to default to utf-8 encoding?  Or does it do
> > > this automatically if the locale is set to utf-8?
> >
> > You can put this in your .vilerc
> >
> > set file-encoding=utf-8
> >
> > It's set to use "auto" now, which allows it to decide whether it looks like
> > utf-8 or not.  That works reasonably well for utf-8.  For utf-16,
> > it's harder (for that, there's the percent-utf8 setting to tweak).
> OK, I have done that, but it doesn't produce the result I want (at
> least it doesn't seem to).  What I want is that when I enter
> characters like the GB pound sign they are put into my file correctly
> utf-8 encoded.  What's actually happening is that I'm still gettting
> the 8-bit pound sign (as in ISO-8859-1).

well - there's the simple part (vile's expecting UTF-8 input) and the
complicated part (if the terminal isn't delivering UTF-8, you can enter
codepoints as \uXXXX values).  I'd check that the terminal's delivering
utf-8 first.

> As it is if I hit the GB pound key I get an invalid utf-8 character
> although vile displays it correctly but if I  'cat' the resulting file
> it displays as inverse video ?.  I can only enter valid pound signs
> by the clumsy ^VuA3 sequence.

I know that (my) xterm delivers UTF-8 for the keycodes in utf-8 mode.
Other terminals differ.  iirc, you're using rxvt.  The rxvt-unicode
flavor is supposed to work (though I've only tested its display output,
not the input).

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