Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>
> > I did point this out to the Debian vim maintainer; he claims he wants the
> > "vim" package to be minimal and suggests the above; I gave a few arguments
> > for it, but havn't received any response yet (it's only been two days.)
>
> He did respond (read the bug-tracking item).  Since vim + UTF-8 wouldn't
> be effective in the console, and only with xterm, there's little advantage
> even to making a new vim-utf8 package.

  By not being effective, do you mean that vim with UTF-8 support would
not work even in a console that supports UTF-8? How about connecting
to a Linux host using a UTF-8 terminal emulator (e.g. Kermit)?  IMHO,
there's certainly a need for making the default vim speak UTF-8.

  Jungshik Shin

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