Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:12:14 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <zy@miator.net> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable ML <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvi fails to when encountering 0xa9 character Message-ID: <CAGsORuCkbsVrXSRM0NCKT7pCGrkRonOBcT8Qb-2TkkeA-BKmsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uS6MZHyaQSiRzXUzsY3wnRJhR-GiUW=DXAVAA1ZRm0kA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1uS6MZHyaQSiRzXUzsY3wnRJhR-GiUW=DXAVAA1ZRm0kA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > When I edit a file containing the 0xa9/copyright/circle-c character. the > line that the character is on is rendered as ~. It is not editable. It > can't even e deleted. While nvi will allow stepping to the next line and > continuing to edit, searching past the line fails and writing out the file > truncated the file at the line. Unless a backup exists, the remainder of > the file is lost.Since that character is usually early in the file, most of > the file is lost. I don't know if other characters also trigger the problem. > > Is this a known issue? iconv related? It is VERY annoying! Fortunately I > did have a backup and I usually use emacs. Yes, and I do want to change its behavior. A workaround is invoke nvi with env LC_CTYPE=C nvi ... With "C" locale, nvi runs in plain old 8-bit mode. -- Zhihao Yuan, ID lichray The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ___________________________________________________ 4BSD -- http://4bsd.biz/
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