On Monday 15 Feb 2010 18:31:26 Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi, > > I don't use Vi so I don't have any idea about this. > > A friend is doing some translation work and needs to work in a UTF-8 > environment. She said she'd prefer to use Vi, but implied that she thinks > that it doesn't have UTF-8 support. > > I'dve thought that it would by now. > > So can anyone tell me if Vi (or possibly a clone) has UTF-8 support, and > if so, if she needs to do anything special to activate it? >
Vim and gvim ( http://www.vim.org/ ) have very good support for UTF-8 and other charsets. Here are some of my links regarding them: * http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Vim/beginners/ * http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/conf/vim/ * http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Vim/telux-tips-and-tricks/ There are other vi-clones besides Vim, but Vim is the most comprehensive, the most actively maintained and the most recommended. You really shouldn't be using a different vi clone. I should note that people added support for international character sets and encodings to the traditional vi - http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ , but you really should no longer use it. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Geoff. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
