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

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:09:32PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
>> Hmm, nothing changed for me.. characters with accents still get inserted
>> as \xC3.
>> Anything I can test?
>
> I'm puzzled, since it's working for me (I tried nl_NL.utf8 here).
> So I'm either building it differently, or running it differently.
>
> Is this in insert-mode?  With some specific characters?  

Yes, in insert mode.  I always use UTF-8, mostly for accents on vowels.

> Perhaps the  
> driver is related: If it's configured --with-screen=curses or  
> --with-screen=ncurses, those are not UTF-8 capable (though  
> --with-screen=ncursesw should work).  I'm generally using the default
> terminfo/termcap driver.

I use the following configure command:

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir='$${prefix}/share/man' \
    --with-locale --with-perl --with-cflags=-O2 --with-loadable-filters=all

> I assume you're setting file-encoding=utf-8 as mentioned last week.

Yes, well if I create a new file with file-encouding set to auto,
I get \xC3 for example instead of \?C3.

> Without a specific setting, vile's reading characters according to
> the locale (with or without iconv), and applying them to the buffers
> according to _their_ file-encoding.

% locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_NAME=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_ADDRESS=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_TELEPHONE=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

> With xterm, I "just" use a meta-whatever to get upper-128 codes
> (which uxterm translates into UTF-8).  A quick check using vile's
> ^VxNN seems to be working.

My xterm behaves oddly.. compose key usages seems to result in
no chars being inputted at all, but I can copy & paste UTF-8 chars
into the xterm (shell prompt).

Anyway, if I edit the file attached, both in xterm and gnome-terminal
with the above shown locales I see:

Accents: \?E9\?F3\?E1\?ED
Dashes: – —

(So the en- and em-dash (U2013, U2014) are shown correctly, but the vowels
with accents are not).

Paul

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