Re: [vile] :map and unicode

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:10:42 +0100
Christopher Illies <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:34:49PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > I've gotten about half of this - part of it is a sign-extension bug (which
> > creates the odd characters), but after that, it seems that there's some
> > additional problem, which causes the UTF-8 to be inserted in the wrong 
> > order.
> > 
> > I'll continue to investigate.
> > 
> > However - just checking - on FreeBSD, you're using a port (I assume),
> > so my fixes probably won't be visible til a release (is that right?).
> 
> The ports collection of FreeBSD, which I used to install vile, allows
> to compile from source and it is easy to include patches.
> 
> Speaking about patches: I noticed a number of patches:
> vile-9.7.patch, and vile-9.7[a-h].patch.gz on the ftp site. None of
> these is currently applied to the ports system. Do you recommend to
> use them? I could file a bug report and try to get them included.
> 

I'm the maintainer and I'm waiting for the ports slush to end before I
update the port.

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Gary Jennejohn