On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM, André Ramaciotti <andre.ramaciotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At least here, vi can open non-ASCII files, but as I said previously, > it won't show the lines with non-ASCII characters. The worst thing is > if you try to save this file, vi will save it only up to the first > line with a non-ASCII character: > > $ cat test.txt > This line is fine > mas essa não (but this one isn't) > neither is this one. > > Then open it with vi and try to save it. > > $ cat test.txt > This line is fine > > and that's all. > > Vi does crash, but only when I type a non-ASCII character. Might be worth seeing if we can find a patch to fix the crash at least.