Thanks for enligthenment.
* Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> le [13-07-2018 10:06:19 -0400]:
> On July 13 2018 Thuban wrote:
> >
> > Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8
> > sings such as "????", "?? " or so. One need to install
> > nvi package to do so.
> > Is it planned to replace the vi binary in the future?
> > Is there any reason I can't think to keep this vi version?
> >
> > Regards.
> > --
> > thuban
>
> If you read
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
>
> you should have noticed the following paragraph
>
> "BSD projects continue to use nvi version 1.79 due to licensing
> differences between Berkeley Database 1.85 and the later versions by
> Sleepycat Software."
>
> So the answer is no. nvi in the base of OpenBSD is further cleaned from
> bugs beyond once upon a time common code. bcallah@ could shed more light
> on the work on nvi from the base. Obviously if you need UTF-8 support
> you have a choice of using package or two switching to DragonFly BSD
> which has nvi2 in its base.
>
> Cheers,
> Predrag
>
--
thuban
