Re: [vile] Strange problems entering extended UTF-8 characters in xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Chris G wrote:

> I'm having some odd problems entering accented (and other) characters in
> xvile.   That is I'm having problems *entering* the characters, when
> they are entered correctly they display OK and are correctly encoded etc.

I think we're making progress :-(

> The first problem is that using the 'Multi_key' to enter the characters
> only works sometimes, I haven't really worked out when it does and
> doesn't work, most of the time it just does nothing.  The Multi_key
> works correctly in every other application I have tested (e.g. firefox
> text boxes, command line windows, vile, etc.).

ok... (something to research).

> Secondly, even though I'm running digraphs.rc when I start xvile the
> CTRL-K sequence to enter accented characters doesn't work for some
> sequences.  E.g. CTRL-K i ^ produces an i with a circumflex but CTRL-K e
> ' produces ^Ke'.  In fact, looking into it further, it seems that only
> the acute accent sequences aren't working.  Is it possibly that the \'
> in digraphs.rc isn't being interpreted correctly?  Sequences without a \
> seem to be OK.  (This problem is present in vile as well as in xvile)

hmm - perhaps that's a problem resulting from one of the quoting fixes I
made a while back.  If I type (literally) the "\" in CTRL-K E \ '
then I get the accented character that the comment suggests.

> Finally, if I paste an é into an xvile window I sometimes get an é and
> sometimes I get é.

Is that from the same source?  (uxterm marks selections as utf8-strings,
while some other sources do not).

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