Hi, At Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:24:11 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's not true on my up-to-date Debian system, running sid/unstable. > The current release, 6.0.011-2 (which corresponds to upstream vim > 6.0.11), is compiled with multi_byte disabled. The alpha and beta > packages had it enabled, and I hereby put in my vote for it to be > re-enabled. Wichert, a number of us think UTF-8 support is essential to > the system of the future. If you want a minimalist version of vim > without UTF-8, reintroduce vim-tiny. I confirmed I was wrong and you are right. This is terrible situation. Now multibyte-language speaker cannot use vim at all, neither in legacy encoding nor in UTF-8. Even my bug report with a patch (#107856) cannot fix this situation, though Wichart closed the bug when he packaged Vim 6.0! Bug#107856: http://bugs.debian.org/107856 In short, Vim 6.0 is completely useless without locale support for CJK people, while it means that 8bit-language people merely cannot use UTF-8 mode and they can use legacy encodings. --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
