Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:27:05AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get some decidedly
> > odd behaviour:
> > 
> > The following sequence:
> > 
> >   <Compose>l- <Compose>e' <Compose>c,
> > 
> > is rendered in vile as:
> > 
> >   \?A3\?E9\?E7
> > 
> > outside of vile, in the same terminal that appears fine:
> > 
> >   £éç
> > 
> > which would suggest that vile doesn't handle UTF-8 at all, although as
> > Chris noted, entering those three characters using C-v x <hex> works fine,
> > and renders in vile correctly.
> 
> hmm - with some time, I can bisect to pinpoint the problem.

did that.  It's a small change, which I'll have to rethink.
Attaching a diff showing what I changed to get this problem.

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