GVim and Unicode ( was Re: What's left for 1.0?)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Daniel Keep wrote:

> 
> 
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>> BCS wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>> However, I don't known how to put in a BOM.
>>> You can use Notepad to do it.  Yes, the crappy old Notepad that comes
>>> with Windows.  When you go File -> Save As, make sure to set the
>>> encoding as appropriate.
>>>
>>> I'm still very annoyed that Notepad has better Unicode support than GVim
>> 
>> How so? I've never had any problems getting GVim probably setup for
>> Unicode.
>> 
> 
> It's basically a font problem.  GVim allows you to select exactly two
> fonts: a "normal" monospace font, and a "wide" font (which is used for
> things like kanji.)
> 
> The problem is that once you've picked those fonts, GVim will never use
> anything else.  This is a pain because you end up with heaps of unknown
> Unicode characters.  For example, none of the weird characters I used in
> the examples for my article on text in D show up in GVim (except for the
> hiragana since I have a Japanese font installed) but they all show up in
> Notepad which falls over to other fonts if the one it's using doesn't
> have that character.  There appear to be options for selecting a set of
> fonts to use, but they don't work on Windows.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 

Right, that is a usecase I've not needed to test :/

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