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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:01:56 +0100
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39:44AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I
> used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to
> improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different:
> I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-mode tunable,
> like tcsh), so that it can deal with more encodings. Can that be a
> GSoC project proposal?

This is a very great idea.
I'm missing this feature more and more.

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B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.