Re: Multibyte characters in the Hardstatus line

[Wang, Roger]

Hi Michael,

I used the attached patch so the utf8 hardstatus would display
correctly in my xterm titlebar. Is it ok or how could I improve it?

Thanks in advance.

Roger

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:28:17PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:04:09PM +0200, Zvi Har'El wrote:
> > Comparing Unicode, it replaces U+03B1 GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA with 
> > U+00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN and so on, i.e, the Unicode  values seem to be
> > taken modulo U+0100.
> 
> Yes, it's because StringChar() in ansi.c discards the upper bits.
> To fix this bug we'd have to change the way the string gets stored.
> Note that we can't just simply transcode to the display's encoding,
> as the window may be displayed on multiple displays with different
> encodings...
> 
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Schroeder           address@hidden
> main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);}
> 
>

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