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>
this will make it less likely to misinterpret arrow keys as seperate
keys when running over anything slower than a console.
This has been talked about for a while, I hope it's long enough but not
too long to be annoying.
