Re: [tlug] Misc. edit questio

[Steve Smith <sjs@example.com>]

Hi.

Please excuse the foolish question.  I just got back from
walk and looked at the file again.  It's a news file and the
text is shift-jis or something which I guess kterm/xterm
(X?) understand and vi/vim don't.  At least when I edit the
file I now realize each line that was Japanese start and end
with an escape eg:
^[$B"!%M%C%H%K%e!<%9$N0lMw^[(B
I use Suse and this box has 8.2 on it.
I guess I'm just paying the learning curve.

Thank you very much.

Steve S.

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Scott wrote:

>
> If you open vi in kterm, doesn't it read it correctly?
>
> What O/S and distribution are you using?  This often makes a difference.
>
> Vim, in almost any distro, should be able to read it.  In Slackware, vi
> aliases to elvis, in FreeBSD to nvi and in Deb I think it also goes to
> nvi.  In RH and many others, it aliases to vim.  (The way to tell is,
> for example,)
>
> which vi
> /usr/bin/vi
> ls -l /usr/bin/vi
> /usr/bin/vi -> /usr/bin/vim
>
>
>
> --
>
> Scott
>
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Spike: Oh, listen to Mary Poppins. He's got his crust all stiff
> and upper with that nancy-boy accent. (everyone looking at him)
> You Englishmen are always so... (pauses) Bloody hell! (ticks off
> on his fingers) Sodding, blimey, shagging, knickers, bollocks,
> oh God! I'm English!
> Giles: Welcome to the nancy tribe.
>
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