Martin Gerbing writes:

>I am working with NetBSD 1.5.2 with the GENERIC Kernel. 

NetBSD 1.5.2 doesn't have the necessary i18n functionality in libc,
they're just (ascii-)stubs there, on which vi depends for classifying
characters (ctype(3)).  I've heard rumour that full i18n support will
be available in 1.6, though, maybe already is in -current.
It's imho one of NetBSD's weak points to be so late with i18n but then
again to do it correctly is very hard and most systems have it broken
in some way or another.

--mkb