Re: less & composing characters - fix

["Mark Nudelman" <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com>]

My apologies -- a stupid bug was ruining all UTF-8 output.  This one
should work better:
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-385.tar.gz.

--Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
To: "Mark Nudelman" <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com>
Cc: <developer at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: less & composing characters - fix


> --- Mark Nudelman <markn at greenwoodsoftware dot com> wrote:
> > The new version of less is ready for testing.  You can download from
> > http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-384.tar.gz.  I'm
especially
> > interested in testing multibyte UTF-8 characters, and composing and
> > combining characters, including special cases like man-page style
> > overstriking of multi-byte characters (two identical characters with
a
> > backspace between them, or a character overstruck by an underscore),
> > line breaks in long lines containing multibyte characters, and
command
> > line editing (search pattern or :e filename) with multibyte
characters.
> > One thing that I know doesn't work quite right is combining
characters
> > on the command line, although composing characters should work.  Let
me
> > know if you find any problems.
>
> I downloaded 384, but I can't get it to display UTF-8 characters at
> all.  I get the likes of 'P3REP qDDGP qD1QN-REpFP' instead of seeing
> UTF-8 Arabic characters.  The same setup, settings (I have, per the
> man page, LESSCHARSET set to utf-8) and file under 381 works without
> issue.
>
> Here's a sample file for you to try (compare against what is shown
> on your web browser when the UTF-8 encoding is selected),
>
>   www.arabeyes.org/~nadim/ar_utf8
>
> Let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
>
>  uname -a : SunOS dah 5.7 Generic_106541-15 sun4u
>  gcc -v   : gcc version 3.2.1
>
> Can someone else please confirm (and CC Mark) ?
>
> Regards,
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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