> > So, you are proposing that the Perl of the Unicode era be limited to > > ASCII because a 15 year old editor cannot handle the charset? That's > > like suggesting that operating systems should all be bootable from a > > single floppy because not everyone has access to a CD drive. > > I saying that, since my up-to-date version of vi on my up-to-date OpenBSD > can't type, much less even allow me to paste in, a Latin-1 character, this > is an issue.
You're still using the base vi vs. vim?!? I didn't know people did that when it wasn't 3am on Sunday when trying to fix a borked /etc ... Huh! Rob