Subject: Re: Unicode text editor
To: George <ggm@pobox.com>
From: None <marina@surferz.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/16/2007 11:38:41
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, George wrote:

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> sam and wiley are the products of plan 9 (and its antecedents)
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Acme is a plan9 editor that is quite a bit easier to user. It is available
under inferno too and as a stand alone editor in Acme-Sac. I use Acme a
lot for email.

--- Marina Brown

> plan9 is wide char/unicode/utf-<x> across-the-board. "it just works"
> for multi-char, multibyte char, I8N because it was designed to do
> it from day #1.
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> so, the references to compose key etc are about how the religious
> wars of interface design came down on chorded input/commands and
> not about if it is one UNICODE char in ASCII.
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> -G
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