Re: [vile] Minor extended characters problem in 9.6m

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Chris G wrote:

> I'm using the "as distributed" versions of vile and xvile on my
> xubuntu 8.10 system.  The version for both vile and xvile is 9.6m.
>
> The problem is that when I type a £ (GB pound symbol) in xvile I get
> £ (that's letter A with a circumflex accent, followed by a GB pound
> symbol).  Typing the same in vile works correctly.
>
> I can delete the preceding Â, it's a separate character.
>
> My locale is en_GB.UTF-8.
>
> Is this one of the several minor glitches that have been fixed since
> 9.6m or is it still present?  I can probably build the latest version
> to try it out, I was just being lazy installing the default version.

yes - this sounds like 9.7c:

 20080727 (c)
        > Tom Dickey:
        + 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).

There's a tarball for the current source in

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/

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