On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:02:13AM +0200, Jiri Navratil wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to edit UTF-8 text files under vi or mg?
As far as I know most base utilities do not yet have UTF-8 support, but it might be coming soon, as announced in stsp@'s c2k15 report: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150722182236 where it is also mentioned that ksh(1), mg(1) and vi(1) don't support UTF-8, yet. > I'm using some machines, where I need to touch UTF-8 encoded files only > rarely. I would prefer to avoid installation of Vim there and instead > use a "in OS included" text editor. Is that possible and how to use and > configure them? I think nvi would be a good alternative to vim: $ pkg_info nvi-2.1.3 Information for http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/nvi-2.1.3.tgz Comment: ex/vi text editor with wide character support Description: Nvi is an implementation of the ex/vi text editor originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley. Nvi supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It has a number of additional features as well: * 8-bit clean data, lines and files limited by available memory * Multiple edit buffers * Colon command-line editing and path name completion * Tag stacks (including support for Cscope databases) * Extended Regular Expressions * Infinite undo * Horizontal scrolling * Message catalogs * Wide character support Available flavors: iconv - support conversion between different character encodings Maintainer: Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@cathet.us> WWW: https://github.com/lichray/nvi2
