On Wed 14 Nov 2007 at 20:57:35 +0100, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
>    Can anyone here recommend a decent and relatively dependency-free text 
> editor that handles Unicode?  Preferably a graphical one, but if I have to 
> run it in an mlterm, that might be acceptable too.

Gvim should handle Unicode, either graphically or in a terminal.
As far as I can make out, font selection would be a lot easier in the
Gtk2 version (editors/vim-gtk2) than the XAW version (vim-xaw).

From :help unicode :

Vim has comprehensive UTF-8 support.  It appears to work in:
- xterm with utf-8 support enabled
- Athena, Motif and GTK GUI
- MS-Windows GUI

-Olaf.
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