The attached message was sent to me privately. I'm forwarding it to the
list in case anyone had anything to add that might help Jin Huang.
Best regards,
Tony.
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Thank you for your kindly reply:)
After putting following in ~/.vimrc, I can input chinese without great
difficulty unless I press <RETURN> in IM state to start a new line (this will
cause strange up scroll).
set enc=prc
Yours,
Jin Huang
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From: "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "hj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: is there any method to input chinese under cygwin console window?
> hj wrote:
>> I find that the only method to input chinese in vim on a windows box is
>> using gvim. And after pressing the ESCAPE switch to command mode, I must
>> switch the input method into English. It is not so convenient. Is there any
>> method to solve these problems?
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I never succeeded to use any Input Method; but there are ways to input
> any characters (yes, even hanzi) without an IM:
>
> - If you have the required character in a file somewhere, you can use
> cut-and-paste;
> - If you know its Unicode codepoint number, you can use it (with
> 'encoding' set to UTF-8 -- the 'fileencoding' may be a Unicode encoding
> or a "national" one), see ":help i_CTRL-V_digit".
> - If you /don't/ know its codepoint number, there are ways to find it;
> what I use is the "Unihan.txt" file from the Unicode site
> http://www.unicode.org/ but beware: that file (a plaintext file in
> UTF-8) is very very bulky. Or you could use the Unicode "code charts"
> from the same site, which show the characters in tabular format in PDF
> files. Each file is in codepoint sequence; for hanzi that means they are
> in approximate "radical + strokes" dictionary order.
> - For characters you use particularly often, you can create a set of
> mappings; or if there are many of them, you can create a keymap. For
> Chinese I would expect the {lhs} of every keymap line to consist of more
> than one keystroke but that is quite possible: see ":help
> keymap-file-format".
>
> If none of the above suits you, then I believe you should use gvim; and,
> of course, if your Dos Box isn't in a codepage which is suitable for
> Chinese, then gvim is definitely better because the Dos Box won't show
> your hanzi anyway, even though Vim can still handle them.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
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