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Question 1:  I need to set up an application to use a 16-bit (wide
character) font, such as Chinese.  I can set the fontList, but
how do I enter the text in vi?  For that mattter, how do you enter
characters above 127 in vi?  

Question 2:  When creating a text file where the text is 16-bit, is
it customary to write "wide characters" or "multi-byte"  POSIX has
wide character to/from multi-byte conversion functions.  My coworkers
argue that writing "wide character" (16 bits for everything) makes
it easier to process.  I argue that using "multi-byte" (8-bit where
you can, and using special codes to shift to/from 16 bit where you
need to) makes the files generic.  If it only contains characters in
the lower 127 (ASCII) or in the ISO Latin-1 range, it won't take up
any more room and can still be read/edited by programs that aren't
wide-character aware.  

Question 3:  Does vi handle either "multi-byte" or "wide-character"?
If so, which?  Actually, if it does, the "which" will answer my
question 2.


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