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Date:      Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:17:57 +0100
From:      Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl>
To:        Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
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
Message-ID:  <20110324221757.GA20441@mud.stack.nl>
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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

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