>Number: 159377 >Category: bin >Synopsis: system vi(1)/nvi(1) does not display wide characters, e.g., >UTF-8 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 02 09:00:27 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: J.R. Oldroyd >Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD xx.opal.com 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XX amd64 >Description: The system nvi(1) does not properly display wide characters, e.g., UTF-8, displaying those characters as hexadecimal "\xab\xab" instead. It is 2011 and UTF-8 has been around for over a decade now. FreeBSD is very far behind in not supporting UTF-8 throughout all system tools. It is high time we updated our tools. >How-To-Repeat: Edit a file containing UTF-8 characters. >Fix: Update the system nvi(1) to the version in the port editors/nvi-devel which does support wide character sets (and has done for years). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
