On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:26:27PM +0200, Andras Korn wrote:
> > > > apparently the screen process needs to be running for some time before
> > > > the
> > > > bug manifests itself; what happens is that the cursor is sometimes,
> > > > seemingly at random, placed at column 1-8; a couple of characters I type
> > > > appear there, and then, as I continue typing, everything returns to
> > > > normal
> > > > (except that most tabs appear to be displayed as a simple space and
> > > > those
> > > > few characters stay at the beginning of the line until I hit ctrl-r).
> > >
> > > I think I've seen this one myself... but it's just screen corruption, the
> > > data is written correctly, right?
> >
> > Can you reproduce this bug with joe 3.x?
>
> I couldn't ever reproduce it as such - it just happened occasionally.
>
> I'm no longer sure (it was six years ago, after all) if it's the same issue,
> but in the meantime I've found that enabling 'meta as-is' causes display
> corruption if the file contains 'weird' non-printable characters. While this
> is arguably a feature (after all, I asked for those characters to be
> displayed), the problem is that this seems to be the only way to see
> accented international characters too.
>
> So fixing this would involve displaying printable characters but suppressing
> (or escaping) nonprintable ones, like vim does.
Actually, to get accented characters, you just need to set up your locale
right, because our joe has had locale support since November 2000. :)
Can you verify that it works for you?
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