Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Wed, 3 Oct 2001 23:24:11 -0400,
Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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