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

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:52:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>  patch by Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
>>>     + update list of filters in doc/config.doc
>>>     + improve locale initialization, checking if there is no installed
>>>       narrow locale corresponding to the given (wide) locale.  In that
>>>       case, default to either ISO-8859-1 or ASCII, depending on whether
>>>       there was actually a wide locale whose encoding is UTF-8 or
>>>       ISO-8859-1, or neither (report by Paul Van Tilburg).
>>
>> Works great! Thanks!
>> Uploading this to Debian Sid. :)
>
> no problem - let's see if this looks stable enough for 9.7

Actually... there is one thing I'd like to discuss.
If file-encoding is set to auto, it will inspect the buffer to decide
what to do which seems to default to '8bit' to my systems (inspecting
$encoding) when editting an empty/new file.
It would IMO be more sane to set the default based on the locale.
I have set LC_CTYPE to an UTF-8 locale exactly for that purpose.
If this is done, this still works for editting latin1/latin9 files
or ASCII files. 

What do you think?

Regards,
Paul

 
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