Re: [vile] Accented characters (or not) in 9.7x

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:53:42PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > Having got my vile 9.7x installed and mostly working I just tried to
> > > send an E-Mail in French.  Accented characters no longer work as they
> > > did.
> >
> > I'll try to reproduce this - but need to know
> >
> >         a) locale
> >         b) platform
> >         c) is this "vile" or "xvile", and
> >         d) is it built with curses/ncurses/Xaw/Xm
>
> locale:         everything is set to en_GB.UTF-8 (except LC_COLLATE=C)
> platform:       xubuntu 9.10 (Linux chris 2.6.31-16-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu 
> Dec 3 22:07:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
> vile/xvile:     vile, I don't have xvile 9.7x built yet
> screen:         ./configure --with-perl --with-screen=ncurses 
> --with-libdir-path=/usr/share/vile --with-startup-path=/usr/share/vile

Try --with-screen=ncursesw

For --with-screen=ncurses, you'll only get something that renders 8-bit
characters.  (I may have to refine things to ensure that 8-bit curses 
doesn't display UTF-8).

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