[debian-devel:09778] editor for Shift-JIS encoding (Re: ITP: jvim)

[Taketoshi Sano <xlj06203@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi. Sorry for late to responding.

In <376FFFBB.2144DA08@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 at Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:27:23 -0700,
  on Subject: Re: ITP: jvim,
   Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [Offtopic?]

I change the Subject.

> Taketoshi Sano proclaimed:
> > Yes. JP patch for vim 5.0 is still under development.
> > Currently JP patch (beta versin) for vim 5.1 seems available via
> > http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA003457/vim/vim5/beta/jvim.b5.tar.gz
> 
> I have to support users who use Shift-JIS encoding to write Japanese.  Does
> JVim support this? 

Ah, Yes. Jvim support EUC/JIS/Shift-JIS. (On Win32, there is Unicode support).

You can read the document from /usr/doc/jvim-doc/japanese/readme.doc.gz,
though it is all written in Japanese.

You can set the encoding for file/buffer using option jc.

 :set jc=S

change the encoding from default EUC to Shift-JIS (with auto-recognition of
the encoding of input file).

 E for EUC, J for JIS, and S for Shift-JIS

Without auto-recognition of input file, each letter is replaced by small
letters (e,j,s).

> Is there *any* X-based GUI editor for editing Shift-JIS encoded text?

I don't know about GUI editor much, but IMHO Emacs or XEmacs with mule
can handle the Shift-JIS encoded text.

Or Vedit ? Vine Linux's Editor, but it is not DFSG compatible, at least
I heard so.

I prefer non-GUI editor such as ng, nvi-m17n-canna, and jvim-canna. 
I like Emacs also, because it can be used on KON2, Kanji cONsole. 
They can all handle EUC/JIS/Shift-JIS.

Hope this helps you :)

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  Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx>