[GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

[Pan Tsu]

Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I
> used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to
> improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different:
> I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-mode tunable,
> like tcsh), so that it can deal with more encodings. Can that be a
> GSoC project proposal?

Why not just use "traditional vi"?

  http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ (lives under editors/2bsd-vi)

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