vi: introduce FEATURE_VI_8BIT (as vi currently is not Unicode capable,

people may want to disable display of high-bit chars)
ip: build fixlet

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/editors/Config.in b/editors/Config.in
index 7c06678fb..58959aa97 100644
--- a/editors/Config.in
+++ b/editors/Config.in
@@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ config FEATURE_VI_MAX_LEN
           Contrary to what you may think, this is not eating much.
           Make it smaller than 4k only if you are very limited on memory.
 
+config FEATURE_VI_8BIT
+        bool "Allow vi to display 8-bit chars (otherwise shows dots)"
+        default y
+        depends on VI
+        help
+          If your terminal can display characters with high bit set,
+          you may want to enable this. Note: vi is not Unicode-capable.
+          If your terminal combines several 8-bit bytes into one character
+          (as in Unicode mode), this will not work properly.
+
 config FEATURE_VI_COLON
         bool "Enable \":\" colon commands (no \"ex\" mode)"
         default y