Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Oct 2001 06:34:50 -0400 (EDT),
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "want" isn't the same as "need"

Right, 8-bit language people "want" UTF-8 support.  However, CJK
people "need" either EUC support or UTF-8 support.  (Of course
we "want" both.)  

Fortunately, since Vim 6.0 supports LC_CTYPE locale, it supports
both of EUC and UTF-8.  On the other hand, Vim 6.0 without UTF-8
support does not support locale too, which makes Vim 6.0 without
locale (including UTF-8) support completely useless for CJK people.

I imagine RTL-language-speaking people and combining-character-
language-speaking people also canoot live with Vim 6.0 without
locale support.

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