Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:55:07 +0100 From: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi fails to when encountering 0xa9 character Message-ID: <52D9525B.7000402@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uS6MZHyaQSiRzXUzsY3wnRJhR-GiUW=DXAVAA1ZRm0kA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17/01/2014 07:04, Kevin Oberman wrote: > FreeBSD 10.0-RC5/amd64 > > When I edit a file containing the 0xa9/copyright/circle-c character. the > line that the character is on is rendered as ~. It is not editable. It > can't even e deleted. While nvi will allow stepping to the next line and > continuing to edit, searching past the line fails and writing out the file > truncated the file at the line. Unless a backup exists, the remainder of > the file is lost.Since that character is usually early in the file, most of > the file is lost. I don't know if other characters also trigger the problem. > > Is this a known issue? iconv related? It is VERY annoying! Fortunately I > did have a backup and I usually use emacs. Hi, Unfortunately nvi is really not unicode capable AFAIK. You probably want to switch to vim or another editor. Regards.home | help
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