I am looking for handy tool to write small posts in this blogspot blog now. I have tried Drivel and BloGTK under Ubuntu linux. But Drivel can't add tags to my posts, and BloGTK does not work at all. So, I start to search a plugin for my favorite text editor vim.

And I found it on the «The Geek Wannabe» blog. This small plugin allows you to write new post and edit existing posts on the blogspot.com. But it does not work with the Unicode. Now I am patching this plugin to fix all unicode issues and I'll be glad to present these patches to the original plugin's author.

While, this patch is looks like this:

--- ftplugin/blogger/blogger.vim 2006-12-20 21:59:31.000000000 +0300
+++ /home/art/.vim/ftplugin/blogger/blogger.vim 2008-09-09 12:32:29.000000000 +0400
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+" By http://djcraven5.blogspot.com/2006/12/vim-bloggerbeta-plugin-release.html>
 " Vim-BloggerBeta Preamble"{{{
 " Make sure the Vim was compiled with +python before loading the script...
 if !has("python")
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@
     else:
         response, content = h.request(uri, "GET")
     if response['status'] == '200':
-         postsFromXML(content)
+        postsFromXML(content)
     else:
         print "Error getting post feed."

@@ -203,9 +204,9 @@
         num = 5
     for i in range(num):
         if BLOGGER_POSTS[i]['draft']:
-            print str(i+1) + ':', BLOGGER_POSTS[i]['title'] + '        **DRAFT**'
+            print '%d: %s **DRAFT**' % (i+1, BLOGGER_POSTS[i]['title'])
         else:
-            print str(i+1) + ':', BLOGGER_POSTS[i]['title']
+            print '%d: %s' % (i+1, BLOGGER_POSTS[i]['title'])
     vim.command('let choice = input("Enter number or ENTER: ")')
     pychoice = vim.eval('choice')
     if pychoice.isdigit():
@@ -498,7 +499,7 @@
         for node in entryNode.getElementsByTagName('link'):
             post[node.getAttribute('rel')+"_url"] = node.getAttribute('href')
         titleNode = entryNode.getElementsByTagName('title')[0]
-        post['title'] = _getTextDataFromNode(titleNode)
+        post['title'] = _getTextDataFromNode(titleNode).encode('utf-8')
         contentNode = entryNode.getElementsByTagName('content')[0]
         post['content'] = _getTextDataFromNode(contentNode)
         idNode = entryNode.getElementsByTagName('id')[0]