On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 06:33:38AM -0600, Dave Polaschek wrote: > Note that I had no luck just setting the print option in the stock > /usr/bin/vi, which reports that it's version 1.79
As you've already found an alternative solution in ports I suppose it doesn't really matter, but for the record setting the print option definitely works for me with the same version of vi from base. Of course this only handles the actual printing of the characters, vi has no notion of the multi-byte encoding so you have to hit ^L to repaint the screen when actually editing them, but it is a way to make quick edits to a file with just a few non-ascii characters in it using only the base system if ports are not an option.
