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From: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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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?
> 
+1 here!

ports/editors/nvi-devel is another starting point here. As far as I understand
it is a further development of nvi which is in base. What I don't like
about it is a dependency on databases/db3 and changed (worse, in my opinion)
handling of keystrokes in 'insert' mode. But it is iconv-aware implementation
already.

My 0.02$,
Alexey.