On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:31:26PM +0200, 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?
לא For those of you who don't read Hebrew: that was "no" in Hebrew. I just types it into vim, which I use as my editor for writing mail messages. When your locale is a UTF-8 one, (isn't it? If not: fix it), and vim is built with multibyte support: vim --version | grep -o .multi_byte +multi_byte (in Debian: even vim.tiny is built with multi_byte support), it should Just Work. Then again, vim is but one VI, though the most popular by for, nowadays. I haven't used nvi for quite some time. I did get to use the busybox nvi several times lately. Both of them seem to have reasonable (or at least: minimal) support of editing Hebrew text: no trivial multibyte issues. I have not tried editing or saving. Versions I have tried: busybox-static 1:1.14.2-2 nvi 1.81.6-8.1 -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
