Re: [vile] Accented (and other extended) characters lost when pasting into vile, OK otherwise.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:47:45PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:33:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > With xvile, there's a bug-fix that comes to mind.  My 9.6m changes
> > > introduced an error in this area, which is fixed in 9.7c:
> > >
> > >  20080727 (c)
> > >         + fix initialization of XIM in xvile; compose sequences did not work.
> > >           Also make xvile build XIM code for configurations other than Athena,
> > >           by supplying fallback for resource definitions.
> > >           (report/analysis by Fabien Coutant).
> > >
> > > (UTF-8 multibyte stuff is for this purpose a "compose sequence")
> > OK, thanks, I'll upgrade when I can and see if it fixes the problem.
>
> I'm so sorry.  I am maintaining vile for Debian (and implicitly)
> for Ubuntu and I haven't gotten around to updating it to more
> current upstream the past few weeks (months?).  I will create
> a new package soon!
>
> I am also struggling with the release system, since I accidently created
> an upgrade path from 9.6-k1 to 9.6m-1.  While this may seem correct, the
> 'm' is a upstream-side thing not a Debian thing, the patching was done
> in Debian space.  So I'd like to continue doing this, now that I have
> made this mistake but I was wondering if Vile could be released as new
> upstream tarball next to the patch, so that I can tear down this
> "Debian-space patching".

I can do that, but don't like to keep lots of old tarballs around, which 
is why I'd put 9.7j for instance here:

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/vile-9.7j.tgz

If you want, I can move it under vile's patches directory and bless it ;-)

(I'm about 1/2 to 2/3 through the 9.7k changes, which would allow 
wide-characters to be checked in character classes - but have been 
absorbed in other programs the past few weeks...)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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