Re: [vile] extended characters displaying as backslash sequences on BSD

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:

> I seem to de dredging up all sorts of problems at the moment.
>
> On my BSD build of vile 9.5o extended characters (e.g. accented
> letters, the UK pound sign, etc.) are displaying as backslashed
> sequences rather than the proper characters.

That sounds as if the locale option is not (one of) compiled in, activated 
(by environment variables) or working.

If it's compiled in, $cfgopts would have "locale" in its list.
For activated - the "locale" command of course.
If it's not working - bug

> I.e for the pound sign I get \xA3 and for e with an acute accent I get
> \xE9.
>
> Vile 9.5o is working OK on other platforms and I thought that my
> previous vile (9.5i or thereabouts) was OK here on BSD.  So what's
> changed?
>
> The characters display fine outside of vile.
>
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