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Old 01-23-2007
cbkihong cbkihong is offline
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On my Linux system, there is no problem with vim in xterm. But I have not had any luck with nvi.

Are you opening vi from a terminal in an X-Windows environment? Other mechanisms of displaying Chinese characters such as on framebuffered virtual consoles are mostly crippled here and there IMO.
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