Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:45:37 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: Johan van Selst <johans@stack.nl> Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com>, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <20110325134537.GB21904@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <20110325094044.GA41319@mud.stack.nl> References: <AANLkTikLbU--J2aVa00tzxWb9GAvjfGnUGovwYaXXqhp@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimKzTrLA%2BW4a73D=aS8fy9npeqvrS8Ua3oNKrjf@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin=Y-z-Rt0cnd3MRg0JoSWJmhC3Uh2b32Bosgfi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimDnA6jdj-MR7J2EGAQFn=%2BRrS9h32N5UWkaDUs@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinuQG2ew4R81861Ei7Czds0pGVFaD4ExheFpnnE@mail.gmail.com> <20110324111118.GF65750@cicely7.cicely.de> <AANLkTikzpFAux=TX9n8bRgGW8CFT%2BBPfRe1JEEpwj26O@mail.gmail.com> <20110324221757.GA20441@mud.stack.nl> <AANLkTi=m=gW7D0C%2BG6hsA=Nm-tikRmbGAC1uGSwS82PR@mail.gmail.com> <20110325094044.GA41319@mud.stack.nl>
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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
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