Re: [vile] Accented characters (or not) in 9.7x

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Chris G wrote:

> Having got my vile 9.7x installed and mostly working I just tried to
> send an E-Mail in French.  Accented characters no longer work as they
> did.

I'll try to reproduce this - but need to know

        a) locale
        b) platform
        c) is this "vile" or "xvile", and
        d) is it built with curses/ncurses/Xaw/Xm

thanks

> When I enter an accented character, either with the vile compose key
> or with the X compose key it results in a very odd sequence of
> characters being displayed. For example when I enter an e with an
> acute accent I see (in vile):-
>
>    M-CM-)
>
> The character is actually correct, if I look at the file after saving
> the e-acute is there.
>
> Thus the problem is in vile's display of the character, not with the
> actual code being entered.
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
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