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by anthk 39 days ago
Nvi 2 (nvi under openbsd) has Unicode support. It's like BSD Vi but with Iconv. Perfect for my needs.

On graphical Vis, I liked Cream, which almost made Vim seamless.

https://cream.sourceforge.net/

Instead of GTK2/3, I prefer Athena Vim.

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> Nvi 2 (nvi under openbsd) has Unicode support. It's like BSD Vi but with Iconv. Perfect for my needs.

My primary editor for text (not code) editing and e-mail. I just wish Unicode support made it into base vi(1) on OpenBSD, but for now I can at least use it for all other purposes other than the ones in the previous sentence.

Ironically ed(1) supports Unicode under X if you XTerm and locale are set for that.