Re: [vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:

> I'm copying text from an ssh session on a remote machine into local
> files I'm editing with vile.
>
> If I put vile into insert mode and past the text into vile itself then
> all extended (i.e. >127) characters are lost.  They disappear
> completely, they don't appear as backslash sequences or anything like
> that.

it's supposed to work...

Which version of vile are you using, and what terminal emulator?
(so I can try to reproduce it, this evening).

thanks

> However if I paste onto the end of the file I'm editing or into a
> temporary file and read that into vile all the accented characters are
> there.  E.g. if I'm editing a file 'thisFile' and I do:-
>
>    cat >>thisFile
>    <do the paste in this window>
>    CTRL/D
>
> Then the accented characters appear correctly in vile while editing
> 'thisFile' (need to do :e! of course).
>
> Why doesn't the paste direct into vile work?
>
> I'm all UTF as far as I know.  'locale' on the machine where vile is
> running shows everything as "en_GB.UTF-8".  On the remote machine
> where the text is coming from  everything is also "en_GB.UTF-8".
>
>
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> Chris Green
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