Intent to upload lv
lv (http://edie.office.web.ad.jp/~nrt/lv/) is a less-like multilingual
file viewer.
From lv document:
* Multilingual file viewer
lv is a powerful multilingual file viewer. Apparently, lv looks like
less (1), a representative file viewer on UNIX as you know, so UNIX
people (and less people on other OSs) don't have to learn a burdensome
new interface. lv can be used on MSDOS ANSI terminals and almost all
UNIX platforms. lv is a currently growing software, so your feedback is
welcome and helpful for us to refine the future lv.
* Multiple coding systems
lv can decode and encode multilingual streams through many coding
systems, for example, ISO 2022 based coding systems such as iso-2022-jp,
and EUC (Extended Unix Code) like euc-japan. Furthermore, localized
coding systems such as shift-jis, big5 and HZ are also supported. lv can
be used not only as a file viewer but also as a coding-system
translation filter like nkf (1) and tcs (1).
* Multilingual regular expressions / Multilingual grep
lv can recognize multi-bytes patterns as regular expressions, and lv
also provides multilingual grep (1) functionality by giving it another
name, lgrep. Pattern matching is conducted in the charset level, so an
EUC fragment, for example, can be found in the ISO 2022 tailored streams
, of course.
* Supporting the Unicode standard
lv provides Unicode facilities which enables you to handle Unicode
streams encoded in UTF-7 or UTF-8, and lv can also convert their code-
points between Unicode and other charsets. So you can display Unicode or
foreign texts on your terminal, using the code conversion function to
your favorite charsets via Unicode. (However, MSDOS version of lv has
none of the Unicode facility.)
* ANSI escape sequence through
lv can recognize ANSI escape sequences for text decoration. So you can
look ANSI-decorated streams such as colored source codes generated by
another software just like intended image on ANSI terminals.
* Completely original
lv is a completely original software including no code drawn from less
and grep and other programs at all.
Copyright
lv is a freeware. We grant you to use and copy lv and all contents of
its archive. You are also permitted to modify lv and distribute the
modified software if there is an obvious annotation which represents the
software is lv-derived in your documentation. We disclaim any kind of
warranty around lv, that is to say, you can use lv on your own risk.
All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1994,1998 by NARITA Tomio <nrt@web.ad
.jp>
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Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>
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