Hello, I read that vim supports unicode editing so tried to enter utf-8 characters using ctrl-v u followed by 4 digit hex code like 093f 092e 0947 0924 0928 ...
miten
imiten@...
Oct 12, 2008 9:48 am
2537
... Many Windows programs, when told that a certain file is Unicode, assume UTF-16 unless the file includes a BOM. So I recommend not only ... but also ... or...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 12, 2008 2:39 pm
2538
Hi all, I have a question about "displayed width" (and not encoding length!) of a character. How does vim "decide" the width of a character, in term of number ...
Jehan Pagès
jehan.marmottard@...
Oct 24, 2008 10:37 pm
2539
... Fullwidth characters always occupy two screen columns. Sometimes an empty column can be added in the last screen column if a fullwidth character would...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 24, 2008 11:03 pm
2540
Wow! For ages, I knew not to ask this question. Now with ... my Chinese /open/ quotation mark ( “ code=0x201c ) is displayed correctly --without colliding...
Mansing
msingtse@...
Oct 24, 2008 11:41 pm
2541
... Hm. Here these characters are displayed with the same (narrow) glyph as a plain double quote in Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, but with FZFangSong U+201C is a...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 25, 2008 12:18 am
2542
Hi All, Â I'm using TeXShop 2.18 (which appears to be the latest version yet the release date claims it came out 9/6/2008, later than I installed it). I'm...
Joseph Retzer
joe_retzer@...
Nov 7, 2008 4:44 pm
2543
I'd like to use a unicode font that includes both simplified Chinese and latin. The only font that I have found that does this in gvim on Windows is NSimSun....
zod
zodjones@...
Nov 13, 2008 8:20 am
2544
I use MingLiU which displays both traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as Latin alphabets. The Latin display is not the prettiest but decent :-) ... ...
Mansing
msingtse@...
Nov 13, 2008 8:41 am
2545
Don't waste time trying MingLiU... I just find out that the NSimSun which zod mentioned has better looking Latin scripts. That is, the MingLiU which I think...
Mansing
msingtse@...
Nov 13, 2008 8:48 am
2546
... Ifound once a font which had glyphs for all Unicode codepoints (in the BMP, U+0020 to U+FFFD, which admittedly is not _all_ Unicode) but it was ugly (I...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Nov 13, 2008 9:33 pm
2547
For the record, these are the fonts that I have found that correctly display both simplified Chinese and latin script in gvim: NSimSun (latin looks awful) ...
zod
zodjones@...
Nov 14, 2008 3:53 pm
2548
... I was going to suggest Deja Vu Sans Mono because I thought it covered all of Unicode, but I just learned that it doesn't cover Chinese: ...
George V. Reilly
george@...
Nov 14, 2008 5:26 pm
2549
G Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra ... From: "George V. Reilly" <george@...> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:25:37 To: <vim_multibyte@googlegroups.com> ...
truman@...
Nov 14, 2008 6:11 pm
2550
How do you match the BOM in a file you are editing in vim? I've tried the following: /\xfeff /\o177377 I know you can just set nobomb to get rid of it, but I'm...
zod
zodjones@...
Nov 19, 2008 5:34 pm
2551
... The BOM doesn't fall outside the Unicode range, it is not considered part of the text, so when reading a file in ucs-bom mode, Vim strips the BOM and sets...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Nov 20, 2008 3:13 am
2552
Thanks, Tony. That was driving me crazy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_multibyte" maillist. For...
zod
zodjones@...
Nov 20, 2008 4:44 am
2553
[Tony Mechelynck] ... Just for the record (and to be pedantic), while the BOM is a Unicode character, the reversed BOM is not part of Unicode. This is more a...
François Pinard
pinard@...
Nov 20, 2008 12:05 pm
2554
... To be still more pedantic, U+FFFE is part of the Unicode range, where it is listed as "Not a character", i.e., it is one of the "forbidden" codepoints...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Nov 21, 2008 7:16 am
2555
... That is to be expected. When you change 'encoding' all text currently in memory that contains non-ASCII characters may become invalid. That includes file...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Dec 8, 2008 6:41 pm
2556
On vim/gvim 7.1 and 7.2 for MS Windows I noticed that there are problems with editing files when the file path contains non-ASCII characters and you change the...
rpr
rpr.nospam@...
Dec 8, 2008 9:08 pm
2557
... Yes, and at http://vim.wikia.org/Working_with_Unicode you'll find a tip which I put together when I was still on Windows (Win98 I think), and the current...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Dec 9, 2008 1:00 am
2558
Rats! I tag the following mode line to all of my Chinese text files, to mark their encoding and font set etc.: <!-- vim: set fo+=mM gfn=MingLiU\:h12...
Mansing
msingtse@...
Dec 9, 2008 6:09 am
2559
... So, what is the right way to write text files with utf-8 encoding so that they may be automatically editable on a "multi-byte" enabled system which do not...
rpr
rpr.nospam@...
Dec 9, 2008 9:54 am
2560
... [...] ... [...] There isn't. If you know that you will (even only occasionally) be editing files which can contain any Unicode codepoints, you should start...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Dec 9, 2008 2:35 pm
2561
Le Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:54:28 -0800 (PST), rpr a écrit dans le message ... File encoding is set with 'fileencoding' option, not 'encoding'. You can add a 'fenc'...
Patrick Texier
p.texier@...
Dec 9, 2008 5:54 pm
2562
... ...and if it detects the wrong value (let's say Vim detects latin1 on an iso-8859-2 file) you can reload the file with an override, as in ... See also...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Dec 9, 2008 6:08 pm
2563
I tried changing "enc=" to "fenc=" in my mode line: <!-- vim: set fo+=mM gfn=MingLiU\:h12 fenc=utf-8: --> but my Chinese text doesn't show up correctly (as if...
Mansing
msingtse@...
Dec 10, 2008 12:46 am
2564
... not on the modeline but as an ex-command. You need a Vim version with +multi_byte compiled-in and your 'encoding' MUST already be set (preferably somewhere...
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Dec 10, 2008 1:22 am
2565
They calculate col number counting bytes, not chars. Also :python vim.current.line and :python vim.current.buffer holds data in strings encoded in utf-8, but...
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