On July 13 2018 Thuban wrote: > > Default vi (nvi) in OpenBSD doesn't handle correctly most of UTF-8 > sings such as "????", "?? " or so. One need to install > nvi package to do so. > Is it planned to replace the vi binary in the future? > Is there any reason I can't think to keep this vi version? > > Regards. > -- > thuban
If you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi you should have noticed the following paragraph "BSD projects continue to use nvi version 1.79 due to licensing differences between Berkeley Database 1.85 and the later versions by Sleepycat Software." So the answer is no. nvi in the base of OpenBSD is further cleaned from bugs beyond once upon a time common code. bcallah@ could shed more light on the work on nvi from the base. Obviously if you need UTF-8 support you have a choice of using package or two switching to DragonFly BSD which has nvi2 in its base. Cheers, Predrag
