Re: [vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:03:03AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > I'm copying text from an ssh session on a remote machine into local
> > > files I'm editing with vile.
> > >
> > > If I put vile into insert mode and past the text into vile itself then
> > > all extended (i.e. >127) characters are lost.  They disappear
> > > completely, they don't appear as backslash sequences or anything like
> > > that.
> >
> > it's supposed to work...
> >
> > Which version of vile are you using, and what terminal emulator?
> > (so I can try to reproduce it, this evening).
> It's "vile version 9.6m for linux-gnu" running on xubuntu 8.10.
>
> It's running in the xfce default terminal which is "Terminal 0.2.8 X
> Terminal Emulator".
>
> Strange, I've just retried it (trying a gnome-terminal as well as the
> above xfce terminal) and it works this time.
>
> I'll try and tie down exactly when it fails.
>
> Aha! I've got it.  The problem is in xvile, not vile.  When I paste
> into vile it works OK, when I paste into xvile it doesn't. The xvile
> version is the same as the vile one above.

With xvile, there's a bug-fix that comes to mind.  My 9.6m changes
introduced an error in this area, which is fixed in 9.7c:

 20080727 (c)
        + fix initialization of XIM in xvile; compose sequences did not work.
          Also make xvile build XIM code for configurations other than Athena,
          by supplying fallback for resource definitions.
          (report/analysis by Fabien Coutant).

(UTF-8 multibyte stuff is for this purpose a "compose sequence")

> > thanks
> >
> > > However if I paste onto the end of the file I'm editing or into a
> > > temporary file and read that into vile all the accented characters are
> > > there.  E.g. if I'm editing a file 'thisFile' and I do:-
> > >
> > >    cat >>thisFile
> > >    <do the paste in this window>
> > >    CTRL/D
> > >
> > > Then the accented characters appear correctly in vile while editing
> > > 'thisFile' (need to do :e! of course).
> > >
> > > Why doesn't the paste direct into vile work?
> > >
> > > I'm all UTF as far as I know.  'locale' on the machine where vile is
> > > running shows everything as "en_GB.UTF-8".  On the remote machine
> > > where the text is coming from  everything is also "en_GB.UTF-8".
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Chris Green
> > >
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