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

[Chris G]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 06:47:51AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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).
> 
When do you ever go to sleep?!  :-)

I've just tried --with-screen=ncursesw, ./configure runs OK but make
fails with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw".  ... but I do have
libncursesw.so in /usr/lib.

OK, it needs the libncursesw5-dev package installed as well as the
libncurses5w package.  Now makes OK.

... and, yes, that's fixed it, thank you!

It's so long since I built from source that I've forgotten all the
little quirks.  I'm spoilt by pre-built stuff from ubuntu/debian.

-- 
Chris Green