The first version of the classic VI editor with proper UTF-8 support has completed beta testing and has been released now officially: Vim 6.0.
http://www.vim.org/ http://www.vim.org/announce/vim-6.0 This is a major milestone towards ubiquitous UTF-8 support under Linux! If you are a vim package maintainer for a distribution, please ensure that the multi-byte support is always compiled in in your RPM! Please test vim by editing some ISO 10646-1/UTF-8 files like http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt in a UTF-8 locale under xterm. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
