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Add nvi2 acknowledgments to README.
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This is version 2.2.0 (2020-08-01) of nex/nvi, a reimplementation of the ex/vi
This is version 2.2.1 (2023-09-25) of nex/nvi, a reimplementation of the ex/vi
text editors originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley
Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley.

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Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino developed the file encoding detection
techniques in his nvi-m17n.

o In nvi2, Zhihao Yuan incorporated the multibyte encoding support onto DB1.

It was not possible without great support from Alexander Leidinger,
Peter Wemm, and the FreeBSD community.

Last but not least, money from Google Summer of Code.

o Since then,

Todd C. Miller and Craig Leres adopted and refined the NetBSD-style
expandtab option.

Yamamoto Takashi, Matija Skala, and Jessica Clarke ported the
software to macOS and Linux.

Anthony J. Bentley made heroic efforts to modernize the code base
and documentation, leveraging experience from OpenBSD to improve the
quality of the project.

...and many others, including Michael McConville, Marc Simpson,
Jeffrey H. Johnson, Bosco García, Anton Konyahin, Walter Alejandro
Iglesias, and those who tried hard to keep anonymous on GitHub :)
Their insights render the software usable, secure, and sustainable.

The following acknowledgments were written by Keith Bostic:

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