Re: [vile] utf-8 newbie

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Paul Fox wrote:

> i guess if gcc is going to start putting UTF-8 in its error messages,
> it's time for me to figure out how to display them.  sigh.  it's been
> a good run.  :-)
>
> i think my problem is simple.  simple xterm doesn't solve it, but
> uxterm does, and the gcc error messages look fine.  running vile under
> uxterm isn't so successful.  i unset printing-low/high hoping that the
> defaults for everything else would do the right thing, but i still get
> \xNN escapes:
>    foo.c: In function \xE2\x80\x98ec_write\xE2\x80\x99:
> that's true with file-encoding set to locale (the default), auto,
> or 8-bit.
>
> if i change file-encoding to "utf-8" i get:
>    foo.c: In function \u2018ec_write\u2019:
> which maybe is better, but i think i'm on the wrong track.
>
> i have LC_ALL=C and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 set.  i'm running vile-9.7zd
> (because that's what came with ubuntu maverick.  i can build a newer
> version if that will help).

perhaps this - easy to check:

until 9.8d/e, vile would rely upon having (installed in the system) locale 
data for en_US and en_US.UTF-8, which was workable for several years until 
Ubuntu (and others, though iirc, Ubuntu was the first) reduced their 
locale support.

In 9.8d, I added a builtin table (about 70kb) to provide that information
(but there was a remaining bug that I fixed in 9.8e).

If "locale -a" doesn't list en_US, that's the first place to consider.

On other fronts, someone's packaged vile for Fedora, but (the last I 
checked a couple of weeks ago), it's got a problem with the library
path, making most syntax filters fail to load.  It's a nuisance when I 
update with yum, since my working package gets overwritten.  So I have a 
to-do to write a comparable (but working) rpm spec...

At the moment I'm working on dialog, expecting to go to xterm next - based 
on how big my backlog is - sorry for being slow to get back to vile 
(dialog has a lot of work due to the recent adoption in FreeBSD).

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