Re: [vile] vile-9.6k.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:35:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:42:35PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > It would IMO be more sane to set the default based on the locale.
> > > I have set LC_CTYPE to an UTF-8 locale exactly for that purpose.
> > > If this is done, this still works for editting latin1/latin9 files
> > > or ASCII files.
> >
> > hmm - it's a little more complicated than that (I've made some changes
> > which seem to work, will be testing...).  For _reading_ a file, the
> > auto-detection is actually needed, I think, to avoid reading a latin1
> > file as utf-8 (it would tend to be illegal coding). [...]
> > For _writing_ a new buffer, the locale is more reliable, since vile's
> > collecting all of the information on that.
> >
> > So what I've implemented in the past couple of days is a new setting
> > for file-encoding, "locale", and made that the default.  The existing
> > "auto" setting tells it to use only its guess, while "locale" tells it
> > to use the locale-settings for new files.  The other values are still
> > used to tell it exactly what encoding to use.
>
> This is exactly what I meant to say. Great!  I had only issues
> when trying to edit a new file, which was latin1 by default now
> instead of UTF-8 by (locale) preference.

good - I'll sniff about the boundary conditions for a few days to see if I
overlooked something.  (if you're impatient, my working patch is in
ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/ )

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