Hi Tim, I tried vim with a file that I know contains UTF-8. It did not show it in a forma that I could read or type. My terminal is vt100. The wiki page contains what looiks like a programming snippet. Where is that to be used? Thanks, John On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 06:10:42PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > On 07/03/12 17:48, John J. Boyer wrote: > > Neither nano nor vim will handle UTF-8. I need a command-line > > editor that will. > > Most builds of Vim should support UTF-8 as long as the terminal in > which you're using it does. Check the output of ":version" to see > if "+mutli_byte" is set. If you have vim-tiny installed, it may not > have been built with multi-byte, so you can install what's usually > called "vim-full", "vim-nox", or just "vim". > > There's a good description regarding getting Unicode/UTF-8 working > on the wiki at > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode > > Hope this helps. And if you're not a Vim user, I'm sorry that I > can't be of much help. :-) > > -tim > > -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list