From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 13:45:42 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 93DA1106566B for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lidl@hydra.pix.net) Received: from hydra.pix.net (hydra.pix.net [IPv6:2001:470:e254:10::3c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7B88FC15 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hydra.pix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydra.pix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2PDjcU9022490; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:45:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lidl@hydra.pix.net) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.5 at mail.pix.net Received: (from lidl@localhost) by hydra.pix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p2PDjbFb022489; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:45:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lidl) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:45:37 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl To: Johan van Selst Message-ID: <20110325134537.GB21904@pix.net> References: <20110324111118.GF65750@cicely7.cicely.de> <20110324221757.GA20441@mud.stack.nl> <20110325094044.GA41319@mud.stack.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110325094044.GA41319@mud.stack.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Arnaud Lacombe , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bernd Walter , Zhihao Yuan , Pan Tsu , ticso@cicely.de 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 13:45:42 -0000 On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:40:44AM +0100, Johan van Selst wrote: > 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. Has anyone looked at the nvi work that has taken place in NetBSD in the last year or so? I think they've put in a bunch of wide character support. I'm not sure if their DB code relies on bdb newer than what is in libc or not. -Kurt