Vi and UTF-8

[ik]

 Hi Geoff,

First of all, there is no VI anymore, only vim and other programs that
mimics VI.

On vim, you can use UTF-8 by either doing the following:

:set encoding=utf8

Or use it with a UTF-8 environment when executing it (and no other settings
effect the encoding).

Ido


http://ik.homelinux.org/


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 18:31, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't use Vi so I don't have any idea about this.
>
> A friend is doing some translation work and needs to work in a UTF-8
> environment.  She said she'd prefer to use Vi, but implied that she thinks
> that it doesn't have UTF-8 support.
>
> I'dve thought that it would by now.
>
> So can anyone tell me if Vi (or possibly a clone) has UTF-8 support, and if
> so, if she needs to do anything special to activate it?
>
> Geoff.
>
>
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