Re: insert-string garbling characters

[Thomas Dupond]

Thank you very much for your fast reply and this small patch.
I downloaded version 9.8u and applied the patch but now
whenever I try to insert an é interactively I only get : \?E9

And this goes for every character like èéêîïôöûù they do not
appear correctly. When I switch to 8bit encoding with
`setl fk=8bit` \?E9 appears correctly as é.

On the bright side, when I use insert-string with UTF-8
encoding, the characters appear normally in the command prompt
and insert-string works as intended.

I realised that you use `setl fk=8bit` and with this encoding
everything work as intended, interactive and insert-string. But
I would rather use UTF-8 than ISO-8859.

I'm sorry I cannot be of much help, I have very little
knowledge of C programming.

Regards,
Thomas Dupond

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
Le lundi, novembre 30, 2020 1:59 AM, Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 04:21:24PM +0000, Thomas Dupond wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm just starting on exploring vile and I fell on something I
> > cannot solve. I was trying to write a macro and while vile
> > seems to handle UTF8 really well it doesn't seem to work well
> > with the function insert-string.
> > I can insert "é" but when I use "insert-string é" it prints this
> > mess : ￃﾩ
>
> yes... scripting hasn't been as well-tested as interactive stuff :-(
>
> > Any idea on how to solve this ?
>
> Here's a fix for the most common case (it won't handle a special
> case where the buffer is non-UTF-8), which should work for you.
>
> also attaching a script I used for testing, e.g.,
> ./configure --enable-trace --with-builtin-filters && make
> ./vile @foo.rc makefile
>
> > My locale is :
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>
> ...
>
> > I'm on debian 4.19 and I compiled vile-9.8 from source with
>
> 9.8's getting a little stale - 9.8u is current.
>
> I put snapshots in github (but have too many concurrent things to
> polish off 9.8v)
>
> > ./configure --with-builtin-filters
> > And $cfgopts = hypertext,locale,iconv,multibyte,terminfo
> > Kind regards,
> > Thomas
>
> --
>
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