Hi,Vi is a different storry. On my system it also works like this: "\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb4\xd1\x81" The proble though is with ncurses based UI.
Have you tried the ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27700 ?
(I think you have because you are in the CC list ;) )
I compiled app-editors/nvi (local ebuild, though) against libncursesw.so
and It works fine with ja_JP.UTF-8 locale.
P.S. sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r5
Wkr, -- Sergey Kuleshov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sergey
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