Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 18:49:28 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <ypankov@fastmail.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (character) Conversion error (in vi) ? Message-ID: <06696e14-e7e5-f212-4ef0-b89e7e78cde5@fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <67158.1589577502@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <67158.1589577502@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Ever since my last system upgrade, some months ago now, vi has been > behaving badly/differently. Sometimes it gets a bee in its bonnet > over something that, I guess, it is trying to interpret as a (malformed?) > Unicode or utf-8 character or something, and in such cases it refuses > to allow me to edit the file in question. > > How can I return it to the old/prior behavior, under which it could > tolerate any old sequence of eight bit bytes without having a hissy > fit? > > There must be some option to tell it "don't do that", yes? (For the > life of me, I don't know why the old/prior behavior wasn't maintained > as the default behavior. But I wonder the same thing about a *lot* > of different software "upgrades".) I'm interested in more details on this as I could be somewhat involved (see PR 202290). What release did you upgrade from/to? Could you provide a simple test case that shows the issue?
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