tags 496305 + pending thanks Hi,
> When I edit /var/lib/dpkg/status using nvi and then search for a > string (or page down a few times), I get: > "Conversion error on line 428" > I then can't 428G, but 427G reveals: nvi with USE_WIDECHAR enabled is just being strict: US-ASCII is a 7-bit charset, so any characters with the 8th bit set cannot be meaningfully interpreted. I've written a small patch that restores the old, pre-WIDECHAR nvi behaviour of displaying those characters as hex codes, because (even if it's technically speaking not nvi's fault) writing truncated files is bad. Regards, Jan
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