Re: [vile] strange 9.7 vile behavior under FreeBSD

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've updated the FreeBSD vile port to 9.7 and now I'm observing _very_
> strange behavior.
>
> If I don't make vile with ICONV support, then when I start it, it
> totally ignores all keyboard input.  Note that it comes up just fine and
> has also loaded the (in my test shmode) appropriate filter.
>
> The last version I'd updated the port to was 9.6e and I know that vile
> worked just fine without ICONV support there.  The 9.7 xvile also works
> without ICONV support turned on.
>
> I've found a workaround - if ICONV is turned off then if I also turn
> off i18n support (--without-iconv --without-locale) then vile works OK.
>
> Conversely, if ICONV is turned on then I also turn on i18n, but I'm not so
> certain that's the correct thing to do.  But --with-locale seems to be the
> default anyway. which seems questionable to me.

Originally, "--with-locale" meant that we could rely on having a sane 
setlocale() function and usable ctype.h.  That's been the default for a 
few years, at the expense of having to override it on my oldest (Slackware 
3.6, FreeBSD 3.1).  The multibyte code doesn't have a separate ifdef,
and is also turned on here.

The "--without-iconv" affects a translation table that vile may use to 
support an 8-bit subset of a locale, e.g., "en_US.UTF-8" and "en_US".
(That's simple, but not all of the mappings are to ISO-8859-1).

But it's "supposed to" work just fine without the table - it'll only
be able to use ISO-8859-1 as a subset.  "C" and "POSIX" are also
supposed to work...

> This all seems kind of strange though.
>
> Comments?
>
> BTW my locale settings:
> garyj:peedub:~:-bash:35> locale
> LANG=
> LC_CTYPE="C"
> LC_COLLATE="C"
> LC_TIME="C"
> LC_NUMERIC="C"
> LC_MONETARY="C"
> LC_MESSAGES="C"
> LC_ALL=
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
>
>
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