From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 09:40:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6AE106566C for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johans@stack.nl) Received: from mx1.stack.nl (relay04.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F508FC14 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mx1.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id ED4101DD9B6; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:40:48 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-DCC: SION: scanner01.stack.nl 1111; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on scanner01.stack.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Relay-Country: _RELAYCOUNTRY_ Received: from mud.stack.nl (mud.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5011::70]) by mx1.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBA01DD64E; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:40:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by mud.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 801) id 8A70111482; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:40:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:40:44 +0100 From: Johan van Selst To: Zhihao Yuan Message-ID: <20110325094044.GA41319@mud.stack.nl> References: <86aaglx1ow.fsf@gmail.com> <20110324111118.GF65750@cicely7.cicely.de> <20110324221757.GA20441@mud.stack.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Arnaud Lacombe , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bernd Walter , ticso@cicely.de, Pan Tsu Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:40:50 -0000 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Zhihao Yuan wrote: > > 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. > 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. Thank you for explaining. Indeed, all valid points and I fully agree that nvi-devel is not fit for inclusion in base as it is. In fact, the nvi from base is probably a better starting point (than nvi-devel) to create an editor that is fully compatible with nvi 1.79 and supports all multi-byte encodings. And when you, or someone, else creates such an editor, I will be pleased to remove the obsoleted port of nvi-devel. Johan --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF4EAREIAAYFAk2MYxoACgkQAEpMHW8nCPQezQD/ezL20Q2D2wShen2R9afe1bHl XZ5sTCKDdmVefqqbPEoA/j8NdqGtf8Ta6Ve6jqY4HhnY9v6tmpP/pRe8NZbKsCmv =dCWy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--