Unicode sending issues

[huijunchen9260]

Dear Palardy:

Recently I started to code in julia, and julia has a great functionality that can easily enter unicode character, so I can directly let β = 1 something like that.

However when I use vim-slime to send these unicode character in the julia REPL, it seems like it doesn't send the unicode character:

If I copy and paste the line under the cursor to the julia REPL, then it would be correctly executed.

Is there any way that I can let vim-slime to send unicode character?

Thanks!

[huijunchen9260]

It turns out that it is the issue of xdotool, since I am using X11. When I changed to use vim terminal this issue goes away.

[jpalardy]

hi @huijunchen9260

glad you have something working now 👍

[huijunchen9260]

hi @huijunchen9260

glad you have something working now +1

Thank you for quick response @jpalardy !

For some future reference, I'll type what I realized about xdotool here:

According to this post, most likely if you want to type "β", you are typing the unicode set of "β", rather than "β" itself. So based on my own test, this caused the serious delay in typing, i.e.,

• if you execute xdotool type --delay 1000 "β, θ" in command line, it will slowly type "β, θ" out
• if you execute xdotool type --delay 0 "β, θ" in command line, only "," will be typed.

I guess that xdotool needs more time to type unicode out, so causing that delay.

That being said, I am now switching to neovim terminal so the bug in xdotool doesn't matter to me anymore 🤣🤣