Hi, I've been using vim 6.1/w2k/GUI with GIME support for my Japanese text editing for some days now. Generally I've been impressed by how solid the support...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jun 4, 2002 6:33 pm
... wcwidth() thinks U+25CF is single-width, but it's double-width in the Windows fonts. This is a fairly common bug; it happens with Unicode open- and...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jun 4, 2002 6:37 pm
... This sounds like a font problem. I don't find a remark in the Unicode list for character 0x25CF to be double width. ... This has been discussed, and the...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jun 4, 2002 6:50 pm
... It would be good to avoid the display to be messed up. If just this one character isn't displayed correctly that's not much of a problem (leave out half...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jun 4, 2002 7:11 pm
... It's at least five characters: U+25CF, U+2018, U+2019, U+201C, U+201D. I'm considering throwing together a program to see if there are others. ... They...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jun 4, 2002 7:22 pm
... The IME in Windows, when enabled, enters Japanese by default. If I want to enter English, I turn it off. (Actually, reverse that; if I want to type...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jun 4, 2002 9:05 pm
... In Normal mode IME should always be off by default (and it can only be switched on by some key chord, I suppose). That it's on sounds like a bug. ... I...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jun 4, 2002 9:41 pm
... I don't recall. However, Vim is very exceptional in enabling the IME explicitely (in any mode) by default. ... Who originally implemented the Windows IME...
... [..] Phew, that's a lot. ... Sounds like a good idea. Does the same trick also work to turn a proportionally spaced font into fixed-width? That's an item...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jun 5, 2002 5:33 pm
... I think it'd use too much memory. (I have a different idea, using the width array parameter of the font rendering function.) I'll keep it in mind,...
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alexandre.elias@...
Jun 6, 2002 12:25 am
... Yeah, I'll look into it and try to come up with a patch when I have the time. From what I've seen of the code, intercepting and killing the IME in...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 13, 2002 3:14 am
I'm fixing up the clipboard patch, and I'm hitting some problems with convert_setup; it forces to and from to utf-8 for all encodings. What needs this? I...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 13, 2002 12:15 pm
... Vim internally uses UTF-8 for all unicode encodings, also for UCS-2. convert_setup() isn't a fully generic function, it's only for its specific use in Vim....
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 13, 2002 10:04 pm
Attached is a mostly cosmetic patch to mbyte.c. None of this affects the clipboard patch, so I've separated it out. Clarify comments. "Ignores following...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 14, 2002 10:52 am
... Looks like a good bunch of changes. I'll include the patch. Question: You changed UTF-16 to UCS-2 in several places. Are you sure this is correct? I...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 14, 2002 6:26 pm
... Hmm. You're probably right; thinking about it, I'm really not sure. ... For this code, it shouldn't, since it's only used for the IME which probably won't...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 14, 2002 7:47 pm
... As far as I know, MS-Windows only supports UCS-2 so far, but since they finally discovered that 16 bits is not enough (just like 640 Kbyte wasn't enough!...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 14, 2002 9:04 pm
gui_w32 uses ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE in NT; the only doc I can find for this flag says: "Reserved for system use. If an application sets this flag, it loses ...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 14, 2002 9:45 pm
To amend a bit: The funky_dbcs code works, but it's incomplete: padding isn't specified, so bold and italic characters desync the output a bit, and len isn't ...
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Ron Aaron
ron@...
Jul 14, 2002 10:59 pm
... Yes. If the ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE flag is set on NT (2K, XP, etc) then we tell the OS not to be "helpful" when outputting characters which are in Hebrew or ...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 15, 2002 12:13 am
... Yeah, I just figured that out. I'm trying to figure out exactly what works, and why. For example, this isn't done for UTF-8. The ETO_IGNORELANGUAGE flag...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 15, 2002 8:34 pm
... It seems defining FEAT_MBYTE_IME changes the method used for outputting DBCS text. That is not a good thing, deciding to use HanExtTextOut() should also...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 15, 2002 9:36 pm
... That's what I ended up doing. However, notice that one of the HanExtTextOut calls only does anything when ImeGetTempComposition returns non-NULL, and that...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 17, 2002 10:54 am
... This indeed looks very broken. ImeGetTempComposition() will always return NULL. It already was like this in 6.0. I didn't hear specific complaints about...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 17, 2002 8:56 pm
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:54:07PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> This indeed looks very broken. ImeGetTempComposition() will always
> return NULL. It...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 18, 2002 8:02 pm
... Ehm, this removes HanExtTextOut() completely. I'm not sure if that is a good idea, it wan't added for fun. But it should certainly be called in a...
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Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Jul 18, 2002 9:07 pm
... Well, there are two parts to it: One's the fake-backslash code. I don't think that's worth keeping as is, since it's very special-case, and like you said,...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Jul 25, 2002 10:45 am
Since Sven's Vim pages have stopped working and didn't show any sign of being resurrected, we speeded up the redesign of the Vim pages. Ricardo Signes has...
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The Vim Man
theviman@...
Jul 29, 2002 2:55 am
Anyone succeed in getting Arabic support working? Thanks for your time... -- http://fastmail.fm/ - IMAP accessible web-mail...
