Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 03:15:55PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:54:54AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I just upgraded my systems from xubuntu 21.10 to xubuntu 22.04.
> 
> I don't know about "xubuntu", but Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't seem an improvement.
>  
Xubuntu is just Ubuntu with Xfce desktop.

I *had* to upgrade to 22.04 as 21.10 is out of support.


> > My UTF8 confiuguration in vile and xvile is broken now. 
> > 
> > Well, entering pound sterling signs no longer works, here is one:-
> > 
> > �
> > 
> > (That looks a bit like an iso 8859-1 character to me, not sure really)
> > 
> > vile has been upgraded to version 9.8v, all my locale settings are
> > unchanged I think, and pound signs seem to be working correctly
> > everywhere else.
> 
> Perhaps
> 
>       locale -a
> 
    chris@esprimo$ locale -a
    C
    C.utf8
    POSIX
    en_AG
    en_AG.utf8
    en_AU.utf8
    en_BW.utf8
    en_CA.utf8
    en_DK.utf8
    en_GB.utf8
    en_HK.utf8
    en_IE.utf8
    en_IL
    en_IL.utf8
    en_IN
    en_IN.utf8
    en_NG
    en_NG.utf8
    en_NZ.utf8
    en_PH.utf8
    en_SG.utf8
    en_US.utf8
    en_ZA.utf8
    en_ZM
    en_ZM.utf8
    en_ZW.utf8
    chris@esprimo$ env | grep LC
    LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8
    LC_COLLATE=C


> would show only UTF-8 encoding (vile is designed to know about a combination
> of non-UTF-8 and UTF-8, which used to be a problem).  I've not changed any of
> that for quite a while -- locale support is the first place to check.
> 
> > It's the character *entry* in vile/xvile that's broken, if I create a
> > file with pound signs in it and then open it with vile then the pound
> > signs display correctly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Green
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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-- 
Chris Green