This is the gsoc-2011 project to clean up and backport multibyte support
from other nvi forks in a form we can use.
USE_WIDECHAR is on unless building for the rescue crunchgen. This should
allow editing in the native locale encoding.
USE_ICONV depends on make.conf having 'WITH_ICONV=YES' for now. This
adds the ability to do things like edit a KOI8-R file while having $LANG
set to (say) en_US.UTF-8. iconv is used to transcode the characters for
display.
Other points:
* It uses gencat and catopen/etc instead of homegrown msg catalog stuff.
* A lot of stuff has been trimmed out, eg: the perl and tcl bindings which
we could never use in base anyway.
* It uses ncursesw when in widechar mode. This could be interesting.
GSoC info: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/zy/1
Repo at: https://github.com/lichray/nvi2
Obtained from: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
(ironically, the assumption is in a code block which is conditional on its
converse). This isn't strictly the correct fix; it's more of a workaround
to prevent an infinite loop. The correct fix (see
ports/editors/nvi-devel/files/patch-vi-relative r1.1) would take a file off
the vendor branch, but since the result for this version of nvi is
identical, this route was elected.
PR: 28687
Approved by: -developers
