On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> > It was a requirement for the host system, not necessarily for every > developer's computer. In real life, many colleagues of mine are still using > DOS editors or old versions of VI, but they are still able to edit source > code in UTF-8, as long as they are just interested in the ASCII part (i.e., > the commands, tags, statements, etc.). > > _ Marco > The fact that people can continue using whatever editors they like as long as their job function doesn't require meddling with the UTF-8 strings, as is the case among your colleagues, is clearly a HUGE benefit of using UTF-8. Now, what about those of us who require both excellent UTF-8 support, and also want a good programmer's text editor? Does anybody know of good solutions for this? Where is "uvi" (unicode-competent "vi"), for example? I tried "vim" (www.vim.org) under "mlterm" (http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/) and it seems to bungle most UTF-8 strings. The problem seems to be with "vim", because a simple "cat" of UTF-8 files under "mlterm" works perfectly (This was vim v. 6.0av BETA which came with a Linux distribution and seems to have been compiled with a lot of internationalization stuff turned on). My current solution is to use both Yudit (www.yudit.org) and an editor called Edith (http://www.zfc.nl/). Yudit meets my unicode needs, while Edith meets my other needs as a programmer and developer. So, I end up using two different editors. I'd be interested in knowing what other people use on the major platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)? Does anybody have a good web page summarizing this area?
