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. Even more odd, *other* characters work fine with compose in vile: <Compose>## <Compose><" <Compose>e, for example input fine, and appear in vile as expected: ♯“ę xvile is similarly odd, and launched as: xvile -xrm '*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1' behaves in the same way: using compose, ♯“ę works, but £éç does not. Similarly, the latter does work using C-v x <hex>. Things are more screwy with the Debian shipped app-defaults (hence the -xrm flag), which uses "8x13" that turns out to be an alias for the 8859-1 variety of that misc font, not the unicode one. That however is my fault, and I'll fix that in an upload shortly. On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 at 07:27, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > ... and further, no compose key sequences work in vile 9.8v whereas > they do work in vile 9.8u. > > E.g. I can't enter accented characters using COMPOSE + e + ' (for e > with acute accent) or COMPOSE + c + , (for c with a cedilla). > > -- > Chris Green > >