Ken Takata wrote:
> 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.
> 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?
I still like to be able to build a tiny Vim with the smallest set of
features. Can be used on rescue systems and embedded systems.
It is especially important to have a minimal set of dependencies, e.g.
no iconv library.
For a while I tried to keep the limit so that Vim could run with 1 Mbyte
of memory (what the Amiga originally had). But I haven't checked
recently. At least I had to give up on MS-DOS at some point.
I agree that the #ifdefs for multi-byte support can be annoying. Using
macros helps in many cases.
The closing of the maillist was not because of multi-byte being
important or not, it was just the observation that multi-byte issues
were being discussed on other maillists, there was hardly anyone who
bothered to join the multi-byte list.
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