Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:54:54AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I just upgraded my systems from xubuntu 21.10 to xubuntu 22.04.

I don't know about "xubuntu", but Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't seem an improvement.
 
> My UTF8 confiuguration in vile and xvile is broken now. 
> 
> Well, entering pound sterling signs no longer works, here is one:-
> 
> �
> 
> (That looks a bit like an iso 8859-1 character to me, not sure really)
> 
> vile has been upgraded to version 9.8v, all my locale settings are
> unchanged I think, and pound signs seem to be working correctly
> everywhere else.

Perhaps

        locale -a

would show only UTF-8 encoding (vile is designed to know about a combination
of non-UTF-8 and UTF-8, which used to be a problem).  I've not changed any of
that for quite a while -- locale support is the first place to check.

> It's the character *entry* in vile/xvile that's broken, if I create a
> file with pound signs in it and then open it with vile then the pound
> signs display correctly.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 

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