Re: [vile] Non-us keyboard layout mishandling.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Ramil Farkhshatov wrote:

> Hello.
> Vile in normal mode interprets keypresses made in non-us layout (e.g.
> utf-8 cyrillic) as a sequence of us (latin) keypresses and does random
> actions or sets 'arg: ' to some huge values. This behaviour makes
> confusion when editing. I think that vile should ignore such keypresses.

vile should...

This sounds like a special case which I thought I'd fixed: if your machine 
doesn't have the corresponding ru_RU locale data installed, then vile may 
have incomplete information on the locale.

Is that the case?

(I can think of some ways to develop a solution for that)

> It occurs both on text console and xterm. Vi (ex-vi.sf.net) and vim
> ignore keypresses made in non-us layout.
>
> Information that may be useful:
> Locale: ru_RU.UTF-8
> Console keymap: ruwin_cplk_UTF-8
> X layout: ru(winkeys)
>
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