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Subject: Re: nvi fails to when encountering 0xa9 character
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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.