Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Previously Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> 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!

Fixed in 6.0.011-3.

> 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.

Please don't call it completely useless, there was a single vim
package that didn't have multibyte enabled, the 5 others did have
it enabled.

Wichert.

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