On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > I did point this out to the Debian vim maintainer; he claims he wants the > > "vim" package to be minimal and suggests the above; I gave a few arguments > > for it, but havn't received any response yet (it's only been two days.) > > He did respond (read the bug-tracking item). Since vim + UTF-8 wouldn't > be effective in the console, and only with xterm, there's little advantage > even to making a new vim-utf8 package.
By not being effective, do you mean that vim with UTF-8 support would not work even in a console that supports UTF-8? How about connecting to a Linux host using a UTF-8 terminal emulator (e.g. Kermit)? IMHO, there's certainly a need for making the default vim speak UTF-8. Jungshik Shin - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
