Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get some decidedly
> odd behaviour:
> 
> The following sequence:
> 
>   <Compose>l- <Compose>e' <Compose>c,
> 
> is rendered in vile as:
> 
>   \?A3\?E9\?E7
> 
> outside of vile, in the same terminal that appears fine:
> 
>   £éç
> 
> which would suggest that vile doesn't handle UTF-8 at all, although as
> Chris noted, entering those three characters using C-v x <hex> works fine,
> and renders in vile correctly.

hmm - with some time, I can bisect to pinpoint the problem.

(pasting outside of 0..255 seems ok)

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