Hi Benno,
(I'm looking through the Debian list of nano bugs...)
Twelve years ago you reported a problem with nano relating to using it
in an ISO8859-1 locale. The oldest version of nano that I have
available is 2.0.6, not the 2.0.2 that you reported it for. When, in
that version, I set the locale (LC_ALL) to en_US.iso88591 and switch the
charset of the terminal (Xfce4, I don't know how to do this in xterm) to
ISO8859-1, then I can enter things like á and é and ë perfectly fine.
(And when I look at the hex dump of the data, they are indeed one-byte
ISO8859-1 characters, not multibyte UTF-8 ones.) So... I'm inclined to
attribute the problem that you saw to some misconfiguration of the
locale settings. But maybe you can shed some more light on this?
Thanks for looking for bugs to squash :-)
The problem I mentioned disappeared a long time ago. It happened when I
upgraded to the then newly-released Debian Etch; it is likely that
subsequent work on Debian silently fixed the issue. (Every time I upgrade
to a new version of Debian, a few things stop working.) I currently use
LC_ALL=en_US.iso88591 with no problem.
This one can be closed!
Sébastien.
