Elliot Shank wrote:
I swear I saw something on this list about this before, but I can't find
it. If someone can point me at the prior post, I'd appreciate it.
I've got a utf-8 file with some CJK characters in it. These characters
are being displayed on the line below they are actually on.
'guifont' is set to Courier. The only font that I've got on my machine
that can handle the specific CJK characters I'm looking at is the
Code2000 shareware font from James Kass, so Vim is picking up the glyph
from there. (I.e., none of the CJK fonts that ship as part of MacOS X
can handle it.)
Using the octothorpe to represent the character, I've got a line of text
like this:
blah blah blah "#" blah blah blah blah
but this is displayed as
blah blah blah " " blah blah blah blah
#
I can edit this just fine; this is only a display problem and not a
functionality one. But it's still a pain.
1. What happens if you set your 'guifont' to Code2000 ? (Yeah, I know
it's not a very pretty font, but ugly is better than nothing.)
2. IIUC, 'guifontwide' and (when available) 'guifontset' can be left at
their (empty) defaults, and gvim will attempt to find a suitable font
for wide characters not found in your 'guifont'.
3. I don't know the fine points, but is there an Apple/Macintosh site
from which you could download a "language pack" (or something) for your
OS, to supplement whatever was shipped with it?
4. gvim can _edit_ any Unicode codepoint, but I'm not sure it can
_display_ codepoints higher than U+FFFF, such as the ideograms in the
"CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B" block, U+20000 to U+2A6DF. Here on
my gvim running on SuSE Linux, I have several nice-looking CJK fonts,
but those "high" codepoints all display as a "wide" question mark glyph
in gvim.
Best regards,
Tony.
