Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:18:27PM +0100 wrote:
> If we are going to use UTF-8 for the installer, then we need a new
> editor instead of ae. I looked at the source for ae and thought it
> would be easier to write a new editor from scratch than to add
> multibyte support to ae.
We are currently using nano-tiny
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/nano-tiny.html
we dropped ae for woody.
I don't know how nano-tiny is about UTF-8 or 8-bit charsets, but it is something
to look into.
David
>
> QEmacs may be the answer: http://www-stud.enst.fr/~bellard/qemacs/
>
> Last time I looked, ae was 23888 bytes.
>
> The binary for version 0.2 of QEmacs is 24060 bytes.
>
> I've just tried it out quickly, and, yes, it does allow me to edit a
> UTF-8 file in a UTF-8 xterm. I did manage to segfault it, though, so
> it's not a finished work. Also, I'm not sure whether it can do 8-bit
> charsets or only UTF-8.
>
> Worth looking at, I think.
>
> There isn't a Debian package yet.
>
> Edmund
>
>
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