Re: insert-string garbling characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 04:21:24PM +0000, Thomas Dupond wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just starting on exploring vile and I fell on something I
> cannot solve. I was trying to write a macro and while vile
> seems to handle UTF8 really well it doesn't seem to work well
> with the function *insert-string*.
> 
> I can insert "é" but when I use "insert-string é" it prints this
> mess : ￃﾩ

yes... scripting hasn't been as well-tested as interactive stuff :-(
 
> Any idea on how to solve this ?

Here's a fix for the most common case (it won't handle a special
case where the buffer is non-UTF-8), which should work for you.

also attaching a script I used for testing, e.g.,
        ./configure --enable-trace --with-builtin-filters && make
        ./vile @foo.rc makefile
 
> My locale is :
> 
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
...
 
> I'm on debian 4.19 and I compiled vile-9.8 from source with

9.8's getting a little stale - 9.8u is current.

I put snapshots in github (but have too many concurrent things to
polish off 9.8v)

> 
> ./configure --with-builtin-filters
> 
> And $cfgopts = hypertext,locale,iconv,multibyte,terminfo
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 

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