Re: [vile] Strange problems entering extended UTF-8 characters in xvile

[Chris G]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:19:43PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Chris G wrote:
> 
> >I'm having some odd problems entering accented (and other) characters in
> >xvile.   That is I'm having problems *entering* the characters, when
> >they are entered correctly they display OK and are correctly encoded etc.
> 
> I think we're making progress :-(
> 
> >The first problem is that using the 'Multi_key' to enter the characters
> >only works sometimes, I haven't really worked out when it does and
> >doesn't work, most of the time it just does nothing.  The Multi_key
> >works correctly in every other application I have tested (e.g. firefox
> >text boxes, command line windows, vile, etc.).
> 
> ok... (something to research).
> 
> >Secondly, even though I'm running digraphs.rc when I start xvile the
> >CTRL-K sequence to enter accented characters doesn't work for some
> >sequences.  E.g. CTRL-K i ^ produces an i with a circumflex but CTRL-K e
> >' produces ^Ke'.  In fact, looking into it further, it seems that only
> >the acute accent sequences aren't working.  Is it possibly that the \'
> >in digraphs.rc isn't being interpreted correctly?  Sequences without a \
> >seem to be OK.  (This problem is present in vile as well as in xvile)
> 
> hmm - perhaps that's a problem resulting from one of the quoting fixes I
> made a while back.  If I type (literally) the "\" in CTRL-K E \ '
> then I get the accented character that the comment suggests.
> 
You're right, CTRL-K E \ ' does produce an é, at least that allows me to
enter one in xvile!  :-)


> >Finally, if I paste an é into an xvile window I sometimes get an é and
> >sometimes I get é.
> 
> Is that from the same source?  (uxterm marks selections as utf8-strings,
> while some other sources do not).
> 
Yes, just repeatedly hitting the 'middle' button produces this mixture.
I've just been trying this again and it seems to be very variable and
unpredictable.  I wouldn't worry about it too much, it's not as if it's
a major requirement!  :-)

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Chris Green