[GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Kurt Lidl <lidl at pix.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:40:44AM +0100, Johan van Selst wrote:
>> Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> > > Could you please eleborate on the nvi-devel problems? I'm the current
>> > > maintainer of this port, and as far as I know it's fully functional.
>> > 1. It does not support non-Unicode encodings. Actually, these
>> > encodings are mainstream in multi-byte encodings world. A proper
>> > iconv-awared implementation should be able to handle all of the
>> > encodings in `iconv -l`;
>> > 2. It depends on DB3/4. We won't accept DB3/4 in base system and we
>> > won't accept nvi-devel.
>> > 3. It's not 100% compatible with nvi 1.79.
>>
>> Thank you for explaining. Indeed, all valid points and I fully agree
>> that nvi-devel is not fit for inclusion in base as it is. In fact, the
>> nvi from base is probably a better starting point (than nvi-devel) to
>> create an editor that is fully compatible with nvi 1.79 and supports all
>> multi-byte encodings. And when you, or someone, else creates such an
>> editor, I will be pleased to remove the obsoleted port of nvi-devel.
>
> Has anyone looked at the nvi work that has taken place in NetBSD
> in the last year or so?

I have checked that. It's just a latest nvi 1.85.

>
> I think they've put in a bunch of wide character support.  I'm not
> sure if their DB code relies on bdb newer than what is in libc or not.
>
> -Kurt
>

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Zhihao Yuan
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