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# 1  
Old 01-24-2007
Chinese characters in Vi editor
Dear All,

I have excel files containing Chinese characters. I have a requirement to display the contents of both the English and the Chinese files in the Unix box using the vi editor. But I when I try to open the Chinese files, the characters are junk. Can one of you help me in getting rid of this problem?

Regards,
Antony
# 2  
Old 01-24-2007
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.
# 3  
Old 01-28-2007
Could one of you confirm if this is possible in vi or not? If not I need to check for alternate option to view the Chinese characters from the linux box.
# 4  
Old 01-29-2007
This is possible. My vi editor has no problem displaying the Chinese characters.
Please answer the above question, are you using the X-Windows environment?
# 5  
Old 01-29-2007
Yes I am using Xmanager2 software.

The actual content:

4|纽约名称 |Chinese|EOF
5|Nyの名前 |Japanese|EOF

Content displayed in vi:

Tðy |Chinese|EOF
TMR |Japanese|EOF

Please let know if there are specific settings that need to be done.

Regards,
Antony
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