Re: UTF-8 editor support in Debian?
Previously Drew Parsons wrote:
> So what exactly is the state of support for creating UTF-8 files at
> the moment? As far as I can tell, few of the text editors support it.
> vim doesn't, jed doesn't.
There are alpha release of vim that support it very well, see
http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/vim/ .
> And is it a good idea to provide support libraries for it too? For
> instance, ncurses support for utf8 is supposed to be more or less
> stable now, so wouldn't it be a good idea to use the --multibyte
> configure flag to provide the multibyte version of ncurses?
I suspect that will break binary compatibility which is something we
can't do.
> Can we do more to support UTF-8?
Feel free to submit patches to improve UTF8 support to the various
programs.
Wichert.
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