On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Ken Takata <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bram, > > Two years ago, you announced closing of Vim-multibyte mailing list. > > Vim-multibyte mailing list is closed > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_announce/3Kzdhtsp9dQ/afcHmpksN7QJ > > In the announcement, you said: > >> Multi-byte text is a core part of Vim these days, mainly >> because UTF-8 is wide spread now. > > I strongly agree with this. Nowadays, support for UTF-8 is mandatory for > text editors.
Support for GB18030 (a Unicode transformation format) is mandatory in mainland China. In practice, I suppose that for software publishers this implies support (in China) for other Unicode encodings such as UTF-8 and UTF-16. I'm much less sure about Unicode support being mandatory everywhere _outside_ of China. (France? USA? UK? Jamaica? Haiti? etc.) > Thus how about removing the `FEAT_MBYTE` build option on next minor release > and make it always available? It can make the code simpler (a bit). > > I also think it's better to set `enc=utf-8` as the default on all platforms > near the future. (After the next minor release?) > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Ken Takata And remove the possibility to compile a "lean and mean" vi with Tiny features, working only in 8-bit encodings such as the various avatars of ISO 8859 in use in Europe? (At the moment, +multi_byte is already compiled-in in every build of Vim except Tiny and Small.) (Yes, I am pleading devil's advocate in this discussion. I use UTF-8 myself — mostly. But I also keep an up-to-date Tiny build of Vim under executable name "vi" and I build it with as few optional features as I can. Executable sizes: Huge, 2934944 bytes; Tiny, 766992 bytes. Size ratio: 3.826564 to 1.) Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
