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

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:33:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:03:03AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Chris G wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm copying text from an ssh session on a remote machine into local
>>>> files I'm editing with vile.
>>>>
>>>> If I put vile into insert mode and past the text into vile itself then
>>>> all extended (i.e. >127) characters are lost.  They disappear
>>>> completely, they don't appear as backslash sequences or anything like
>>>> that.
>>>
>>> it's supposed to work...
>>>
>>> Which version of vile are you using, and what terminal emulator?
>>> (so I can try to reproduce it, this evening).
>>>
>> It's "vile version 9.6m for linux-gnu" running on xubuntu 8.10.
>>
>> It's running in the xfce default terminal which is "Terminal 0.2.8 X
>> Terminal Emulator".
>>
>> Strange, I've just retried it (trying a gnome-terminal as well as the
>> above xfce terminal) and it works this time.
>>
>> I'll try and tie down exactly when it fails.
>>
>> Aha! I've got it.  The problem is in xvile, not vile.  When I paste
>> into vile it works OK, when I paste into xvile it doesn't. The xvile
>> version is the same as the vile one above.
>
> 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.

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Chris Green