Cleanly doing UTF-8 support (the "right" way) is planned but is certainly non-trivial ... for example, see: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2016-utf8.

Cleanly doing UTF-8 support (the "right" way) is planned but is certainly non-trivial ... for example, see: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2016-utf8.pdf https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2016-utf8.pdf and http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/full_papers/hagino/hagino.ps http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/full_papers/hagino/hag... Nvi2 (and Nvi1) are excellent editors, but I wouldn't want to copy the Nvi2 implementation directly. This has been talked about elsewhere* * https://misc.openbsd.narkive.com/9NHoQv8L/nvi-and-unicode#post4 https://misc.openbsd.narkive.com/9NHoQv8L/nvi-and-unicode#po...