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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] > https://invisible-island.net > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
