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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:35:49 -0500
From:      Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
To:        Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl>
Cc:        Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>, ticso@cicely.de, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl> wrote:
> Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> 2. nvi does not use iconv, nvi-m17n only supports limited non-Unicode
>> mbyte encodings, nvi-devel has too many problems. So we don't have a
>> nvi which comes with fully mbyte enconding support;
>
> Could you please eleborate on the nvi-devel problems? I'm the current
> maintainer of this port, and as far as I know it's fully functional.
> nvi-devel does have proper UTF-8 support via libiconv. It is based on
> the nvi version we currently have in base and much of the code base is
> still identical.
>
>
> Johan
>

1. It does not support non-Unicode encodings. Actually, these
encodings are mainstream in multi-byte encodings world. A proper
iconv-awared implementation should be able to handle all of the
encodings in `iconv -l`;
2. It depends on DB3/4. We won't accept DB3/4 in base system and we
won't accept nvi-devel.
3. It's not 100% compatible with nvi 1.79.

-- 
Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.



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