Bug 150169 – app-editors/nvi has trouble loading unicode files

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Karl Hakimian 2006-10-05 07:39:34 UTC]

nvi does not use the correct call to read wide characters from a file. I have patched it and submitted the patch upstream and told the author that I would also submit the patch to the gentoo developers.

[Comment 1 Karl Hakimian 2006-10-05 07:41:02 UTC]

Created attachment 98842 [details, diff]
patch to fix unicode read in nvi

I have tried this patch against both the stable version and the soon to be released eselect version of nvi. It works for me.

[Comment 2 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2006-10-06 04:50:36 UTC]

While that patch seems sane to me, could you give a quick example of when it is necessary? (I can use nvi to edit my UTF-8 encoded files, without problems yet.)

[Comment 3 Karl Hakimian 2006-10-06 05:02:55 UTC]

Create a file containing utf-8 characters. Save it. Bring up nvi and then load that file in via :r file. The utf-8 will be garbled.

[Comment 4 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2006-10-06 05:28:31 UTC]

Thanks, fixed in 1.81.5-r5. I know that's in package.mask, but eselect-vi is supposed to be unmasked soon. If it's not, I'll add another non-eselect revision as well.

[Comment 5 Karl Hakimian 2006-10-06 06:59:10 UTC]

Perfect. Thanks.