bin/159377: system vi(1)/nvi(1) does not display wide characters, e.g., UTF-8

J.R. Oldroyd fbsd at opal.com
Tue Aug 2 09:00:27 UTC 2011


>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 root at 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:


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