Re: insert-string garbling characters

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:06:40PM +0000, Thomas Dupond wrote:
> 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

ouch - I'll continue investigating a fix for this (thanks)
 
> 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.

halfway there :-)
 
> 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
> >
> > --
> >
> > Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net
> > https://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
> 
> 

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