Re: Strange behaviour with identity.sl and accented characters

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rudy Taraschi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using the latest identity.sl macro, everything is fine until you get
> to an identity that has an accented character such as "é" in the
> signoff_string.  When entering a group that uses a signoff_string with
> an accented characer, slrn throws a "signoff_string is not a valid
> variable name" error.  This used to work perfectly in 0.9.8.1pl1.

What are you using for the "config" charset?  Are you running in a
UTF-8 locale?  When in UTF-8 mode, the interpreter assumes that all
strings are encoded as UTF-8.  Are you using UTF-8 in your slang
files?  Also, how are you representing é in your .sl file?  As é, or
\xE9, \x{E9}?

Thanks,
--John

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