Re: UTF-8 Editors? (Was XML and tags)

[Jungshik Shin]

Edward H Trager wrote:

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
 That does not necessarily mean that it's vim that's to blame because
a simple 'cat' is too simple an operation to test the capability of a 
terminal
emulator. (not that 'mlterm' is to blame but that there could be other 
issues)

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)
Have you tried a more recent version of vim(6.1)? Vim works very well for
UTF-8 editing under  xterm (use xterm-16x or 17x available at 
http://his.dickey.com).
Unless you need to edit RTL text or text in Indic scripts, xterm+vim 6.1 
under
UTF-8 locale should be a good choice if you're a vi user. The combination
supports up to two combining characters and  enables you to edit 
Latin/Greek/Cyrillic letters with diacritics, Thai and Hangul Jamos.  I 
always use it to edit
virtually all files(UTF-8 or not)

I'd be interested in knowing what other
people use on the major platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)?
 There's also an 'extension' for UTF-8 to Emacs21.

 Does
anybody have a good web page summarizing this area?
 For Linux (and other Unix-like OS), see 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Jungshik Shin