So, after partially understanding the syntax highlighting issue I now see that entering accented characters is still broken.
As reported a while ago vile 9.8v gets confused when you try to enter accented characters (I use a Multi_key, so to enter, for example an e with an acute accent I hit Multi_key, e, '). On vile 9.8u (and earlier, I've checked 9.8t too) entering accented characters with the Multi_key works perfectly. On 9.8v (as reported) on entering an accented character an odd backslash sequence is echoed and it's not the character entered. On vile 9.8w (from the Ubuntu repository) entering an accented character does nothing if you enter just one accented character but if you enter a second accented character that *does* get added. This continues, entering a series of accented characters every other one actually gets inserted. -- Chris Green
