Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:18:22 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: (character) Conversion error (in vi) ? Message-ID: <67158.1589577502@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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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".)
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