Hello all, The latest version of Vim has UTF-8 support. It's still in an early alpha-testing stage, many changes still to be made. Vim is a text editor in the style of Vi with many improvements. WARNING: This is really an unstable version. Many things have been added without proper testing. It does crash. It may destroy your work. What should be working is basically the same as what works in the xterm with utf-8 support: 16 bit characters, double-width and up to two combining characters. Up to 31 bit characters in the file can be used, but only 16 bit characters are displayed properly. It works in the utf-8 enabled xterm, Athena and Motif GUI. I didn't manage to make the GTK GUI use an utf-8 font, perhaps someone knows how to fix this. I didn't try this on MS-Windows. The code probably needs some work. I'm not at all an expert in i18n, please have a look what can be improved. Patches are welcome! Basic instructions for compiling: - Unpack the "src", "rt" and "lang" archives (see below). - "cd src" and edit Makefile to set any features or system-specific items. - "make". Check the configure messages if gettext is found. - "make install". Careful: It may overwrite an existing vim executable. - Run Vim. If your $LANG is set for utf-8 it should work directly. Otherwise set the 'charcode' option to "utf-8". If you use the GUI you have to set the 'guifont'. Example: :set charcode=utf-8 :set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1 Much information can be found with the on-line help: for starters :help utf-8 :help utf-8 new 6.0 features :help version6 known problems :help todo You will probably run into problems. Please report to me or the vim-dev maillist (:help maillist). You can find it here: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unreleased/ unix/vim-6.0b-rt.tar.gz runtime files unix/vim-6.0b-src.tar.gz sources extra/vim-6.0b-extra.tar.gz extra files extra/vim-6.0b-lang.tar.gz multi-language files -- [Autumn changed into Winter ... Winter changed into Spring ... Spring changed back into Autumn and Autumn gave Winter and Spring a miss and went straight on into Summer ... Until one day ...] "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moolenaar.net \\\ \\\ Vim: http://www.vim.org ICCF Holland: http://iccf-holland.org /// - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/