Re: [Bug-ed] [patch] ed treats none UTF-8

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello,

Checking your patch I have discovered that ed does not even have real 
support for edition of binary files; the control characters aren't 
correctly (or at all) shown on screen.

I do not think making ed a multibyte capable editor is a good idea. Much 
less if the changes are in the form of ad-hoc fixes for specific 
characters from specific charsets. Even improving the support for 
edition of binary files may break current use of ed.

If you need to edit zh_CN.GB18030 texts I recommend you to use Emacs or 
some other utf-8 capable editor.


Regards,
Antonio.