Re: [vile] Strange problems entering extended UTF-8 characters in xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Chris G wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:19:43PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having some odd problems entering accented (and other) characters in
> > > xvile.   That is I'm having problems *entering* the characters, when
> > > they are entered correctly they display OK and are correctly encoded etc.
> >
> > I think we're making progress :-(
> >
> > > The first problem is that using the 'Multi_key' to enter the characters
> > > only works sometimes, I haven't really worked out when it does and
> > > doesn't work, most of the time it just does nothing.  The Multi_key
> > > works correctly in every other application I have tested (e.g. firefox
> > > text boxes, command line windows, vile, etc.).
> >
> > ok... (something to research).
> >
> > > Secondly, even though I'm running digraphs.rc when I start xvile the
> > > CTRL-K sequence to enter accented characters doesn't work for some
> > > sequences.  E.g. CTRL-K i ^ produces an i with a circumflex but CTRL-K e
> > > ' produces ^Ke'.  In fact, looking into it further, it seems that only
> > > the acute accent sequences aren't working.  Is it possibly that the \'
> > > in digraphs.rc isn't being interpreted correctly?  Sequences without a \
> > > seem to be OK.  (This problem is present in vile as well as in xvile)
> >
> > hmm - perhaps that's a problem resulting from one of the quoting fixes I
> > made a while back.  If I type (literally) the "\" in CTRL-K E \ '
> > then I get the accented character that the comment suggests.
> You're right, CTRL-K E \ ' does produce an é, at least that allows me to
> enter one in xvile!  :-)

it's something that I can probably improve...

> > > Finally, if I paste an é into an xvile window I sometimes get an é and
> > > sometimes I get é.
> >
> > Is that from the same source?  (uxterm marks selections as utf8-strings,
> > while some other sources do not).
> Yes, just repeatedly hitting the 'middle' button produces this mixture.
> I've just been trying this again and it seems to be very variable and
> unpredictable.  I wouldn't worry about it too much, it's not as if it's
> a major requirement!  :-)

It sounds as if the string is coming across in multiple events (though
there might be some related case).  I'll see if I can reproduce it.

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