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Issue representing multi byte green checkmark?
First, thanks for this release. It has vastly improved my life (and continued ability to use nvi).
My issue is about using this checkmark symbol: ✅
I have nvi version 2.2.1 (2023-09-25 installed and when I use this symbol I see a multibyte code and it has difficulty with cursor position on the line after. The displayed code on screen is \u2705. I'm not sure if I'm using it incorrectly or have a feature disabled that is causing this. But many other codes seem to work perfectly.
I don't notice an issue... Please share a video/gif clip if possible. Also, which terminal you're using? I'm using mintty.
Alacrity 0.14.0 (1)
Sorry it is so long...
Alacrity displays correctly when cat'ing the file, just not in nvi2. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6b352ae7-ddd2-43b3-a128-39ad6cf8f6a1
When cat'ing something, it's only terminal in play. nvi2 is a program that obeys your locale. When you see some Unicode characters displayed as-is but not others, it may be because your locale does not consider the character printable. What's your current locale? Please share environment variables such as LANG and LC_CTYPE. In my case, if I set LC_CTYPE to zh_CN.GB18030 and terminal mode to GBK, I can edit Chinese but see the checkmark displayed as \u2705. If I set LC_CTYPE to zh_CN.UTF-8 and terminal mode to UTF-8, I can see the checkmark displayed as a checkmark. Note that different OSs name locale differently; the appropriate locale on your system may not be any of these.
About the cursor behavior around \u2705, this is a nvi2 feature to display something that cannot be printed in multiple glyphs. It's still one character, so you won't be able to point to 2 or 5.
If you found some U+1nnnn characters to be displayed as-is but U+2nnn characters to be displayed in this fallback mechanism, that behavior would sound like a bug (although solving it doesn't address your issue).
% setenv | egrep 'LANG|LC_CTYPE'
% sttyspeed 9600 baud;lflags: echoe echoke echoctl pendiniflags: iutf8oflags: -oxtabscflags: cs8 -parenb
% echo $TERMxterm-256color
I don't typically set any of those environment variables. Also, I'm on macOS 15.1 (24B83) M3
It seems that Alacrity at least tried to follow system locale (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/commit/7901b454ee04c7873e611986ed2dbe5c3d6331eb#diff-35bac35ab4fe2dcd2348a1e8ea0541e66f4a5dfd0ee9569cfa33479a21c3f3a3R64) so I'm not sure how do you have LC_CTYPE not set, but you can set it manually according to the last few comments in alacritty/alacritty#2566. Anyhow, please give locale names such as en_US.UTF-8 a try.