Re: Jed-B0.99-17 and slang-pre2-r1 - some issues

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>1) Handling of the extended ascii characters such as for instance
>   0xE6 and 0xD8 do not seem to work anymore from Xjed; if I enter these
>   characters in XJed they show fine but if I refresh the desktop they 
>   show up as a '?'. They work ok in jed.

I will look into it.  I can imagine what the problem might be.  Keep
in mind that Xjed does not support UTF-8 yet.

>2) fsearch_char ('extended ascii character') produces an "unable to parse
>   character" error in Jed. The character is entered as is and not as an
>   octal but it used to work in 99.17 and slang 1.4.9. Using the octal 
>   value is ok.

Right.  This will be fixed in the next slang release (tomorrow).

>3) DFA syntax highligting in my po_mode is totally broken ;) All colors are
>   gone except magenta and grey and these colors are not used in the 
>   places they were meant to be. I did remove the old DFA table first, but
>   jed/xjed do not even create a new one, so something has changed in this
>   respect, but I do not see any documentation for it.

Is your po_mode available somewhere?

>4) Maybe I should go somewhere else with this, but generally I
>   am having dire problems in getting UTF-8 encoded files to show
>   correctly. In a UTF-8 enabled xterm terminal, I can get jed to show
>   the example file from the slang source archive partially correctly;
>   how much of it being shown correctly is highly dependent of which of the
>   *.10646 fonts that are used. I am doing this:
>   
>   $ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (locale is installed of course)
>   $ xterm -u8 -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1'

I use this: -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
There is nothing I can do it a font lacks support for a particular
character.

>   What settings are you using for enabling UTF-8 correctly in jed and xjed?

Xjed and the windows versions of jed have no support for UTF-8 yet.  I
want to iron out any wrinkles using the xterm version yet before I
introduce new ones.

Thanks for the feedback.
--John

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