Re: debian vim (was - common words...)

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Kamal Dalal <kamal at banoora dot net> wrote:
> Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>
> >  2. Why is debian's vim package (vim-6.2-149+1.deb) without Arabic
> >     support (we need to correct this ASAP).
>
> Are you sure that vim-6.2-149+1.deb does not have arabic support ?
> What does locale say ?

Hehe - yup, I'm pretty positive :-)  The ':version' command
notes "-arabic" (vs. "+arabic") and if I invoke it with
'vim -A file' I get,

  "E800: Arabic cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time"

> For the record, I have an arabic enabled vim-6.2-154+1 (Debian 
> unstable), LC_*=en_US.UTF8 and can edit arabic files under mlterm
> just fine.

Ah, cool then - we're using "testing" but it is good to see
that it is coming :-)  Wonderful.

Salam.

 - Nadim


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