FS#14645 - [vi] (n)vi in testing aborts with international characters
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Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 09 May 2009, 13:22 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:33 GMT
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 09 May 2009, 13:22 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:33 GMT
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Details
(n)vi in testing aborts when you try to enter international
characters like ë and ü. Users have reported truncated
written files also.
The widechar support in nvi is buggy. Either it should be disabled (--disable-widechar), or it should be fixed. Debian has some fixes for this in their package, but what I've seen from them the result isn't so different from disabling widechar support. |
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Closed by Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:33 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: This is obsolete as we are using ex-vi instead of nvi now
Sunday, 13 September 2009, 22:33 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: This is obsolete as we are using ex-vi instead of nvi now
and they're not planning on adding a silly gtk interface.
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26805