Mutt and UTF-8 (was Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support)

2004-05-05 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:17:48PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Recent versions of Debian use ncursesw, but Red Hat 9 seems to use > slang: Ok, now I've gone through all the trouble of getting the latest mutt sources from CVS (because bulding 1.5.6 against slang is broken), updating my pat

Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:17:48PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Judging by the library name this is supposed to work, so can you > describe a reproducible bug? I don't use Red Hat's RPM for mutt, because it has a number of annoying problems and isn't configured the way I want it to be. It

Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:29:50PM +0300, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:27:10PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: > > ..[snip].. > > > in Gaim. =8^) Now if only Mutt will work properly with UTF-8... > > Err... I'm reading these messages in

Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

2004-05-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:10:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For the (aspirant) multilinguals among us, I would say no. The ability > to change input methods on the fly, halfway through filling in a form, > is somewhat cruicial. > > (For this, xim seems to be mostly useless.) Not so, a

Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

2004-05-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:34:36AM +0300, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote: > > Do you know why that is? > > GTK+ strives to be portable over many platforms (X, Win32, linux > framebuffer, etc.). As such, it has been decided that it cannot rely > on the input methods provided by each platform, so instead

Re: JOE editor has just added UTF-8 support

2004-05-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:10:42PM +0300, Vasilis Vasaitis wrote: > Programs that use the GTK+ library use GTK+'s own composition > mechanism by default, instead of the one supplied by X. Do you know why that is? > You can switch that temporarily for a text box, by right clicking on > it and sel

Re: Canonical Mode Input Processing with multi-byte character sets

2004-02-27 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:23:14PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: > [Originally I sent this privately, but I'm resending to the list > because I got no response. FWIW, I just noticed that I received a bounce when I replied privately. The mail server on your end seems to have trouble r

Re: Canonical Mode Input Processing with multi-byte character sets

2004-02-27 Thread Derek Martin
[Originally I sent this privately, but I'm resending to the list because I got no response. I imagine that it's because you've been busy, but I also can conceive that you have some sort of filtering in place to get rid of non-list mail sent to addresses subscribed to mailing lists. In fact, I som

Re: Canonical Mode Input Processing with multi-byte character sets

2004-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:52:56PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote: > 안녕 하세요 신정식씨? Sigh. Bitten by list reply-to headers again. This was supposed to be a private reply... Sorry! Derek pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Canonical Mode Input Processing with multi-byte character sets

2004-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
안녕 하세요 신정식씨? On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:43:09PM +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: > Please, read what I wrote more carefully. I did write that deleting > the last letter is more useful when you're in the middle of typing a > sequence of letter to form a syllable. I think we're talking past eachother

Re: Canonical Mode Input Processing with multi-byte character sets

2004-02-24 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:51:22PM +0900, Jungshik Shin wrote: > Even worse yet, it depends on when, who and where. If a 'grapheme' > (e.g. a 'syllable' in Indic scripts, Korean script) is being formed when > 'backspace' is entered, it's desirable to erase just one combining > character. For 'co