Re: [vile] vile-9.6j.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:

> > I added a couple of related fixes, put a snapshot in
> >
> > ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/vile-9.6j2.tgz
> OK, that behaves as you say it should (and basically as I expect) by
> displaying \?A3 for the invalid pound signs.
>
> It also highlights a problem with the XFCE Terminal which can't change
> character set under user control.  The gnome-terminal can change at
> user request and allowed me to test this easily by creating a file
> with iso-8859-1 pound signs in it and then switching back to utf-8 to
> see how it behaved.  So it's gnome-terminal for me from now on!  :-)
>
> I'll keep running the 9.6j2 code and report any other glitches I come
> across.

thanks.  There may be other areas that I've overlooked, but am not 
expecting that they'll be difficult to fix (the basic design won't need 
changes).

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