Re: [vile] Making UTF-8 default

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote:
> > > How do I tell vile (9.6) to default to utf-8 encoding?  Or does it do
> > > this automatically if the locale is set to utf-8?
> >
> > You can put this in your .vilerc
> >
> > set file-encoding=utf-8
>
> I'm having different kind of issues.  With my terminal input set to UTF-8,
> LC_CTYPE to an UTF-8 locale, vile still produces weird stuff for me.
>
> If I try to enter UTF-8 character 0xe9 (latin small letter e with acute),
> vile displays \xC3 for file-encoding=auto en \?C3 for
> file-encoding=utf-8.  So, the result seems to be half of the actual
> UTF-8 encoding (0xc3 0xa9) of this character.
>
> I am overlooking something?

maybe - what's the locale, and what terminal type?  (I can try reproducing
the problem this evening).

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