Re: [vile] utf-8 and vile 9.61

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:

> If I edit a file with vile and enter pound characters it doesn't work
> properly, vile gets its cursor positioning confused and the characters
> actually written to file are not utf-8 pound characters.

I see the general problem of the positioning:  when vile reads the UTF-8 
characters that correspond to the Latin-1 range, it has to decide if they 
can be represented as single-column characters.  That's working fine on 
_display_, but there's a bug in the keyboard part of it, so it's moving 
the cursor as if it is really a multibyte character (will fix...).

> I have tried the same in an xterm with the same results.
>
> What do I need to do to get vile to handle utf-8 comfortably?
>
> By the way xvile seems to act about the same.

It's using most of the same logic.

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net