On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:27:05AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get some decidedly > > odd behaviour: > > > > The following sequence: > > > > <Compose>l- <Compose>e' <Compose>c, > > > > is rendered in vile as: > > > > \?A3\?E9\?E7 > > > > outside of vile, in the same terminal that appears fine: > > > > £éç > > > > which would suggest that vile doesn't handle UTF-8 at all, although as > > Chris noted, entering those three characters using C-v x <hex> works fine, > > and renders in vile correctly. > > hmm - with some time, I can bisect to pinpoint the problem. > > (pasting outside of 0..255 seems ok) > Weirdly I find that using the vile defined 'compose' key *does* work for accented characters, but using the default 'compose' key (as defined in .Xmodmap) it doesn't work.
I.e. I have "source digraphs.rc" in my .vilerc file as follows:- ; ; ; Set up ^K as 'compose' key for accented characters ; source digraphs.rc ... and, rather to my surprise, when I entered ^ke' I got an e with an accute accent. I rarely (if ever) use this in vile, I'd really forgotten it was there. It doesn't work for a pound sign though (^kl=). -- Chris Green